fowarding vs named.ca

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:14:00PM -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
...
> The reason for using the forwarders is so that I don't have this one
> sole box querying the root servers all the time.  Maybe I'm wrong, but I
> always thought it best to hit an upstream cache rather than going all
> the way to the top.  It certainly would be much simpler for me to
> eliminate the local cache (what the forwarders hit).
...

As Barry and Brad noted, you seem to be misunderstanding how the name
server works.  You should not be forwarding to a local cacheing server,
but using your own cache.  You will hit a root server maybe once every
few months.

-- 
Joe Yao
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