fowarding vs named.ca

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:37 PM -0400 2005-07-08, Jim Popovitch wrote:

>  Can I have 2 caching bind instances on the same host, one using
>  forwarders (bound to 127.0.0.1) and the second using roots (bound to
>  loop 127.0.0.2).  Then just set up 127.0.0.1 and .2 in /etc/resolv.conf.

	Why do you want forwarders at all?  They almost always complicate 
the setup, and slow things down, and make nameserver failure a far 
more difficult task to deal with.

	Try to find a way to eliminate the forwarders completely.

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