Bind 8.1.2 options

[Cricket Liu]

Barry Margolin <barmar at bbnplanet.com> wrote in message
news:<BhLd3.944$KM3.233588 at burlma1-snr2>...
> In article <Pine.GSO.4.02.9906261353550.16063-100000 at struten>,
> Tom-Erik Hestholm  <tom.erik.hestholm at ark.no> wrote:
> >Is it a option "forward first" in BIND 8.1.2 ?
> >If it is what does it do ?
>
> If it doesn't get a response from any of the forwarders, it then tries the
> nameservers it would have sent to if forwarding weren't configured (cached
> NS records for the domain, or the root servers if none are cached).

"Forward first" is also the default behavior if you use forwarders.

> >I do not find anything about this in the book Bind and DNS.
>
> I lent my copy to someone, so I can't verify this, but I find it difficult
> to believe.  Do you have the 3rd edition, which describes BIND 8?

It's there:  pp. 246-247.

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