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Re: bind: mine or my ISP's?
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, guy keren wrote:
> > program --> resolv.conf --> remote DNS --> reply back
> > compared to:
> > program --> resolv.conf --> local DNS --> remote DNS --> reply --> reply
>
> oh. i thought you were taling about a fully configured DNS server (that
> queries the root name servers directly).
that is not for anyone on a line under 128K and short delay to some
serious American backbone. setting forwarders is always faster for
Israelis...
> one the other hand, you make your DNS as reliable as the single remote DNS
> it is forwarding requests to. now here is a question - can bind be
> configured to have a set of 'parent DNS servers' that it will query in
of course. multiple forwarders are even given as an exambple in the bind-4
man page AFAIR.
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