forwarders

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> Just want to ask the options "forwarders" ?
>    our dns server running  bind 8.2.2 PI5

	You need to upgrade see the following for why.
	http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html

> 
>    in  named.conf
>    we defined :
>    "forwarders   {
>        }; "
>    Is that means the requestes will  forward to root dns directly?

	It means that it will behave as if the forwarders clause was
	not there.  This results in iterative queries being performed
	working down from the closest known nameservers, sometimes these
	are the root servers.

	Mark
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> Thank You!
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>  
> Tommy Tan
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