Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 07:49:17 -0500 From: "MikeM" <myraq@mgm51.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named.conf - what is "forwarders" Message-ID: <200212150749170354.0036727A@home.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <20021215022659.GA6592@gothmog.gr> References: <20021215021033.23812.qmail@web20102.mail.yahoo.com> <20021215022659.GA6592@gothmog.gr>
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On 12/15/2002 at 4:26 AM Giorgos Keramidas wrote: |DNS servers that your local named will query for all domains it |doesn't know about. Queries for the local domains are served from the |local zone files. All other queries go through a different procedure |which usually requires sending queries to the root name servers and |several others. This information is cached by the querying named |instance for a while. | |Instead of having your named make queries to root name servers, .com |nameservers, and then google.com. nameservers, when you use forwarders |the servers that you have configured as forwarders are queried. |Bearing in mind that your ISP has many users who probably ask for the |similar DNS information all the time, it is very likely that their |name server has this information already. This is why named.conf |suggests that you use *them* as forwarders. ============= Unless, of course, you are running your own DNS server because your ISP's DNS servers are less than reliable. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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