Why forwarding is a Bad Thing

[Brad Knowles]

At 7:04 PM +0000 3/22/01, Jim Reid wrote:

>  Yes. Absolutely. The two things are equally evil and cause comparable
>  amounts of trouble IMO.

	Alright.  On that basis, I will stop recommending the use of 
forwarding caching name servers, and I will not further discuss this 
issue on this mailing list.

	Now I just have to figure out how I'm going to make the 
appropriate changes to my presentation slides.

--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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