forwarders

[Len Conrad]

>snip---
>forward only;

... means the local DNS will only forward to the forwarders, it will not 
try to resolve if the forwarders are down


>forwarders { 212.84.254.224;
>                      212.84.255.89; };

... means the local DNS will forward incoming queries as recursive queries 
to the forwarder ip's listed.

Len

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