fowarding vs named.ca

[Jim Popovitch]

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 14:28 -0400, Joseph S D Yao wrote:
>
> 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.

Well, I did 15 mins of tests last night....

~$ tcpdump port domain | egrep -i "> [a-m].root-servers.net" | wc -l
 18

no forwarders... seems like a few every minute. ;)

-Jim P.