fowarding vs named.ca

[Jim Popovitch]

--- Joseph S D Yao <jsdy at center.osis.gov> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 03:30:18AM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:28 -0400, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> > > As Barry and Brad noted, you seem to be misunderstanding how the name
> > > server works.  You should not be forwarding to a local cacheing server,
> > > but using your own cache.  You will hit a root server maybe once every
> > > few months.
> > 
> > Well, I did 15 mins of tests last night....
> > 
> > ~$ tcpdump port domain | egrep -i "> [a-m].root-servers.net" | wc -l
> >  18
> > 
> > no forwarders... seems like a few every minute. ;)
> > 
> > -Jim P.
> 
> Out of how many lines?  And, had you just started up?  ;-)

~$wc -l domain.log
1922

And no, it wasn't just started.  Iam going to email you the log privately.

-Jim P.