From owner-freebsd-isp Wed May 23 11:27:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 229C837B423 for ; Wed, 23 May 2001 11:27:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f4NJgkd00259; Wed, 23 May 2001 14:42:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 14:42:46 -0500 (CDT) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: Mark Drayton Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resolving DNS setup In-Reply-To: <20010523090552.A6992@tethys.valhalla.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 - 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