BIND 9.3.1 Forwarder Behavior

Tim Wilde twilde at dyndns.com
Mon Dec 12 16:29:18 UTC 2005


On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Barry Margolin wrote:

> How is the recursive server ending up at your server in the first place?
> Forwarding isn't intended to be used on the servers that a zone is
> delegated to -- you're supposed to delegate to the authoritative
> servers.  Forwarding is something you configure on caching servers.

A number of different sources, including the one I referenced in my 
original post, discuss using it that way as if it works.  Clearly they are 
incorrect, and I will simply adjust the way I am configuring things. 
Thanks.

Tim Wilde

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Tim Wilde
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Systems Administrator
Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
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