Question about Bind 8 forwarder
Danny Mayer
mayer at ntp.isc.org
Sat Jun 7 01:50:38 UTC 2008
Cheung Chun Kwok wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to know the official answer on the forwarding timeout of BIND 8
>
> We are using bind 8.2.4. And we have the following setting:
>
BIND 8 is beyond it's end of life that that version is almost 10 years
old. Upgrade to BIND 9.
> type forward;
> forwarders { 192.168.1.1; 192.168.1.2; };
>
> We want to know if 192.168.1.1 is down, how long will it take to give up
> 192.168.1.1 and try 192.168.1.2?
>
>
> Please kindly give me some advice.
>
Don't use forwarders. It's extremely rare that they provide any benefit.
Danny
> Thank you very much
>
>
> Regards
> Eric Cheung
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