local dns - isp dns - forwarding?

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Mon Oct 6 23:46:38 UTC 2003


Ryan Moore <rmoore at rmoore.dyndns.org> wrote:
> And get the named.cache file from ftp.isc.org.  Bind will go out and query
> the root name servers for any domains it isn't authoritative for.
> 
> Don't use the 'forwarders' configuration option.  It isn't needed.

You usually forward to your ISP's nameservers when you're on slow
connection like ADSL, PPP, etc.  Reason being, they have much larger
cache and faster connection.

-- 
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
Linux solution for data management and processing. 


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