caching nameserver question

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a9mojq$m8r at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
rs4150 at THISmustbeREMOVEDbigfoot.com <rs4150 at THISmustbeREMOVEDbigfoot.com> wrote:
>I have a caching nameserver setup using Bind 9.1.3 on Linux. It usually 
>works as intended; if a record is cached it quickly returns it, if not 
>it looks it up. My question is, is there a way to have my caching 
>nameserver query my ISP's DNS servers in the event the requested record 
>is not already cached, instead of "It then contacted one of the name 
>server machines named in your root.hints file, and asked its way from 
>there." (- explaination from LDP DNS-HOWTO)

That's what the "forwarders" option is for.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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