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>
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