From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 15 4:49:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2470537B401 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 04:49:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from sentry.24cl.com (174.113.sn.ct.dsl.thebiz.net [216.238.113.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512CC43ED4 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 04:49:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from myraq@mgm51.com) Received: from winbloat (winbloat.24cl.home [10.0.1.10]) by sentry.24cl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F7929491 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 07:49:17 -0500 (EST) 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> X-Mailer: Calypso Version 3.20.01.01 (4) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 07:49:17 -0500 Reply-To: myraq@mgm51.com From: "MikeM" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named.conf - what is "forwarders" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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