OT: Forwarding to your ISP

[Kirk Strauser]

On Tuesday 2004-06-29 12:54 pm, Barry Margolin wrote:
> You don't need to forward to your ISP's nameserver, just let your
> nameserver work its way down from the root servers.

Barry,

I apologize in advance for bringing this up, but it's always been my 
understanding that the Internet is better off if everyone forwarded their 
requests to their upstream provider (caching and all that).  I know this 
has been discussed before, but the usual answer I've heard to the question 
is along the lines of "search the archives".  I seem to be Google-impaired 
because I've never found a concise summary of why directly querying the 
root servers is better than forwarding.  Any chance you could point me 
toward an explanation somewhere?  I'd like to make sure I'm following 
current best practices.

Thanks,
-- 
Kirk Strauser

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