fowarding vs named.ca
Brad Knowles
brad at stop.mail-abuse.org
Fri Jul 8 20:26:17 UTC 2005
At 3:38 PM -0400 2005-07-08, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> I have a remote caching bind instance that resolves via forwarders (from
> another cache) for local lookups. This works fine, expect for the times
> that the upstream forwarders go MIA. Is there a way to use named.ca
> (roots) as a last resort if all forwarders are un-responsive?
The root nameservers do not do recursion. You can't use them as
forwarders.
> Additionally, is there a way to go to the roots if the forwarders return
> no result?
Nope.
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