does type forward zones make BIND 8 continuously poll?

[Cricket Liu]

> I'd like to disagree slightly with Cricket here,  BIND 8 prior to 8.23
> would query the forwarders in listed order, timing out at 30 secs
> divided by the number of forwarders.  BIND 9 times out in a different
> way which I find almost indescribable!  I've got some traces lying
> around somewhere if anyone's really interested, I'll forward them
> individually since IIRC Listar strips off binary attachments.

Sure, I'm interested.

cricket

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