Question about Bind 8 forwarder

[Danny Mayer]

Cheung Chun Kwok wrote:
> Hello,
> I would like to know the official answer on the forwarding timeout of BIND 8
> 
> We are using bind 8.2.4. And we have the following setting:
> 

BIND 8 is beyond it's end of life that that version is almost 10 years
old. Upgrade to BIND 9.

> type forward;
> forwarders { 192.168.1.1; 192.168.1.2; };
> 
> We want to know if 192.168.1.1 is down, how long will it take to give up
> 192.168.1.1 and try 192.168.1.2?
> 
> 
> Please kindly give me some advice.
> 

Don't use forwarders. It's extremely rare that they provide any benefit.

Danny

> Thank you very much
> 
> 
> Regards
> Eric Cheung
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