At 05:19 PM 1/6/02 -0500, you wrote: ><clip> > >Strange - I found a couple other man pages that do that, but not all >of them. Guess I'll check the man page RPM and maybe force its >reinstall and see if it still happens and then post to the enigma list >if it still does.
I've not experienced it at all, so it probably is your install. Good luck. > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Forwarding > > > > > >The forwarding facility can be used to create a large site-wide cache > > >on a few servers, reducing traffic over links to external nameservers. > > >It can also be used to allow queries by servers that do not have > > >direct access to the Internet, but wish to look up exterior names > > >anyway. Forwarding occurs only on those queries for which the server > > >is not authoritative and does not have the answer in its cache. > > > > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > >Again this (specifically the last line) seems to indicate this is what > > >to do. If the answer can be found in my machine's DNS cache, it is > > >used, otherwise it uses my ISPs nameservers to do all the work (and > > >then presumably caches the result). > > > > Any DNS server does that. That's what DNS serving is :-) Even a DNS > server > > that talks to a forwarder does caching. The only difference is that if > (and > > only if, by the way, unless you have the entry "forward only") the local > > DNS server is successful in getting an IP resolved by the upstream > > (forwarding) DNS server, then it doesn't have to do the Sherlock Holmes > > work itself. Which is to say that if the upstream server doesn't get the > > job done "in time", then the local DNS server will go out and do the work > > itself, forwarding statement or no. > > > > It's perfectly OK to use your ISP's server as a forwarding server, I'm not > > saying it's not. If you have a busy or a slow machine it's not a bad idea. > > All I am saying is that doing so in a single-DNS server network is not > what > > the forwarding feature was intended for. That is no reason not to use it > > though ! > > > > Julian. > > >I agree with what you're saying. I guess I meant "best/correct" in the >sense that if it's found in the cache it's used (earlier I thought you >were saying the forwarding bypassed the local cache) and if not it has >my ISPs DNS servers do all the work (which is what I want). Right. After all, if you didn't have a local DNS server, your ISP's server would do it anyway, right? So by caching with your DNS server, you're actually potentially reducing the load on him. What a nice guy ;-) j. ======================= >Dave > > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ---------------------------------------------------------------- Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after me ... Julian Opificius. ICQ 3268206. ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
