Forwarders option in BIND

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Sat Jun 5 11:02:05 UTC 2004


ludovic LECLERC <ludovic.leclerc at col.bsf.alcatel.fr> wrote:
> hi,
> I would like to know if there is a way to reduce time interval between
> requests sent by name server to a list of forwarders. I made some
> tests and I found that when there are multiple forwarders in a list
> just like :

> forwarders {ip_addr1; ip_addr2; ip_addr3; ip_addr4;};

> name server wait for 2 seconds before it sends the request to the next
> one when forwarder does not answer (if ip_addr4 is the only one who's
> alive, I'll wait for 6 seconds before it gets the request).

> I'm using a linux server running BIND v9.2.

> Anyone knows a way to reduce this 2 seconds interval or better be able
> to send requests to all forwarders of a list at the same time ? It
> would really help me !

Just remove the forwarding statements and have bind do the job
it's built for.

Forwarding is really only sensible in rare cases, yours arn't.


> THX


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