DNS newbie question

Chris Chris_Yarnell at isc.org
Tue May 10 22:24:55 UTC 2005


<iceman80231 at yahoo.com> wrote in message news:d5qruk$nck$1 at sf1.isc.org...
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have two DNS servers external to my firewall, running BIND 9.2.2.
> Any hostnames that they cannot resolve are being forwarded to my ISP's
> DNS servers.  My servers have zone data files and I wanted to see if
> caching was enabled and, if not, to configure BIND so that it is
> enabled.  After endless searching on Google, I have heard very bad
> things about nscd and BIND not working well together so I want to
> reconfigure BIND to continue to resolve hostnames with its own zone
> data files, forward requests it cannot handle to the ISP's DNS servers,
> AND cache the latter results to cut down on requests made to the ISP's
> DNS servers.  Many thanks.
>
>

Why use forwarders at all. You have a fully capable DNS server so don't send 
recursive queries to your ISP's servers. Let yours do the leg work.

Chris. 




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