OT: Forwarding to your ISP

[Kevin Darcy]

Sten Carlsen wrote:

>Barry Margolin wrote:
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>>In article <cbv0gn$20bn$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>>Kirk Strauser <kirk at strauser.com> wrote:
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>>>On Wednesday 2004-06-30 11:51 am, Barry Margolin wrote:
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>>>>ISP servers are already handling a huge load, so it's not uncommon for
>>>>them to be overloaded (even the best run ISPs occasionally encounter
>>>>unexpected activity, or get deliberate DOS attacks), and you'll suffer as
>>>>a result. 
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>>>That seems pretty reasonable.  It would be introducing a single point of 
>>>failure where one need not exist.
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>>I was going to say that, but it's not quite true, since you can list 
>>multiple forwarders.  So unless all of the ISP's servers share a common 
>>point of failure, you're OK in that respect.
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>If you use "forward first" will that not solve that situation? I 
>understood that it is supposed to try the forwarders, if they fail to 
>provide an answer for any reason, it will do the whole work by itself?
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There will still be a timeout involved. The next step down from "forward 
first" is the pseudo-mode "forward never", which is pretty much what 
we're recommending here :-)

                                                                         
                                          - Kevin