Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 14:42:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> To: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@4thwave.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resolving DNS setup Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105231219110.98953-100000@cody.jharris.com> In-Reply-To: <20010523090552.A6992@tethys.valhalla.net>
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On Wed, 23 May 2001, Mark Drayton wrote: > Nick Rogness (nick@rogness.net) wrote: > > On Tue, 22 May 2001, Mark Drayton wrote: >> One solution maybe to add your authoritative name servers as >> forwarders in your caching only server config. > > If I do that won't the caching servers pass *all* requests to the > authoritative servers (unless it has a valid answer cached)? One og the > reasons I'm setting up the caching servers is to take the load off of > the authoritative servers. Ultimately I don't want the authoritative > servers to answer recursive queries. Then turn recursive queries off on the auth name servers. You won't need that option on if they are not resolving anyting besides authoritative info. > > I was looking through the BIND docs and it appears I can define > 'forward zones' with their own list of forwarders that override the > global forwarders {} statement. I might try configuring the caching > namesever with forward zones for all our zones to pass the requests to > our authoritative servers. Any problems with this setup? > What version of bind are you running? Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> - Keep on Routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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