fowarding vs named.ca

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 9 00:16:34 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 16:54 -0400, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:38:42PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have a remote caching bind instance that resolves via forwarders (from
> > another cache) for local lookups.  This works fine, expect for the times
> > that the upstream forwarders go MIA.  Is there a way to use named.ca
> > (roots) as a last resort if all forwarders are un-responsive?
> > Additionally, is there a way to go to the roots if the forwarders return
> > no result?
> > 
> 
> Your choices are "forward only" or "forward first".  In the latter case,
> if the forwarded-to name server is unavailable, then this name server
> will do a normal lookup using the other name servers on the internet,
> all the way up to the roots if necessary.

Thanks Joseph, it appears that "forward first" is what I need.  I'll
give it a try.  Thanks!

-Jim P.






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