On Sat, 2016-09-24 at 00:15 -0500, Dave Funk wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Lindsay Haisley wrote: > > > > > On Fri, 2016-09-23 at 19:03 -0400, listsb-spamassas...@bitrate.net > > wrote: > > > > > > consider that, to do the work described as "forwarding" in many of > > > these references, the nameserver must perform a recursive query [e.g. > > > it must perform a query with the rd bit set]. > > "A forwarding DNS server offers the same advantage of maintaining a > > cache to improve DNS resolution times for clients. However, it actually > > does none of the recursive querying itself. Instead, it forwards all > > requests to an outside resolving server and then caches the results to > > use for later queries." > > > > What am I missing? > > > > Justin Ellingwood, who wrote the DigitalOcean piece, is a very > > experienced documenter. From his rather impressive resume, I'd be > > inclined to trust what he posts. > This is the difference between asking a question (formulating a query > potentially with the "want recursion" bit set) and then doing the work of > chasing down all the different stake-holders necessary to answer the > question (performing the recursive query) > VS handing the query off to a 3'rd party and letting them do the dirty > work (forwarding)
Exactly! I apologize for double posting, and for missing responses to my posts. I'm busy, and only got onto this list to inquire about blocking a particular kind of spam with which I've been having a problem. I shouldn't have gotten involved in a discussion on name servers. I'm outa here :) Ciao -- Lindsay Haisley | "It is better to bite a single FMP Computer Services | cannibal than to curse the doggies" 512-259-1190 | http://www.fmp.com | -- John Day
