forwarders

[Oliver]

Hello,
what is the meaning of
forward first;   ?

I want to run an extra server if my main RedHat will go down and if this
will happend the I want to forward all queries to this machine?
Is this a good idea?
Olli

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