fowarding vs named.ca

[Brad Knowles]

At 3:38 PM -0400 2005-07-08, Jim Popovitch wrote:

>  I have a remote caching bind instance that resolves via forwarders (from
>  another cache) for local lookups.  This works fine, expect for the times
>  that the upstream forwarders go MIA.  Is there a way to use named.ca
>  (roots) as a last resort if all forwarders are un-responsive?

	The root nameservers do not do recursion.  You can't use them as 
forwarders.

>  Additionally, is there a way to go to the roots if the forwarders return
>  no result?

	Nope.

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