DNS forwarders

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Fri Jan 16 04:10:06 UTC 2009


Thilanka Samarasekera wrote:
> Can someone tell me how a BIND 9 server selects what forwarder its going
> to use? I read that BIND 8 used roundtrip time through a ping but I
> cannot find how BIND 9 does that. Does it round-robin between the
> forwarders that are set? Thanks in advance.
> 
> T

You configure it in the named.conf. However, it is strongly recommended
that you don't use them unless you absolutely have to.

Danny



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