forwarding algorithm and timeouts

[Brad Knowles]

At 7:03 PM -0500 3/27/01, Kevin Darcy wrote:

>  Well, *technically* the term "resolver" covers any software program
>  or component which acts as a client to extract DNS information.

	I see.  You're going to force me to quote.  Very well.  From 
<ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/doc/bog/file.lst> (reformatted slightly 
for readability):

1. Introduction

The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) implements an Internet name server for
BSD-derived operating systems.  The BIND consists of a server (or ``daemon'')
called named and a resolver library.  A name server is a network service that
enables clients to name resources or objects and share this information with
other objects in the network.  This in effect is a distributed data base system
for objects in a computer network.  The BIND server runs in the background,
servicing queries on a well known network port.  The standard port for UDP and
TCP is specified in /etc/services.  The resolver is a set of routines 
residing in
a system library that provides the interface that programs can use to 
access the
domain name services.


	Admittedly, this is a bit old, but it's the most official 
documentation I can find under <ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind/doc/>, and 
at least the terms that it defines almost certainly haven't changed 
since the BIND 4.9.x days.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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