Can someone explain forwarders and why I don't need them?
Alex Hulse
alexhulse at hotmail.com
Wed Jul 30 19:52:57 UTC 2003
I always used to think that in order for a named installed to work
right, it'd need a forwarder to work correctly - ie, point it to the
upstream DNS.
I noticed in this group (when searching for the answer to something else
entirely) that you didn't need one. Odd, I thought, and removed it to
see what'd happen. Suddenly I get much faster DNS. Huh?
However, if I removed it from a machine one firewall behind that (we
have two networks that go Internet --dsl router-->network 1--firewall
linux-->network 2) ie in network 2, that one ground to a halt, so I put
it back and it worked fine again.
Really odd stuff! Any ideas?
Thanks
Alex
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