name caching and forwarding

[Robert Moskowitz]

On 02/26/2013 11:14 AM, Phil Mayers wrote:
> On 26/02/13 16:07, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>> And I am having challenges with the forward option.  It reads that
>> 'forward only' will always ask the forwarder about the query and seems
>> to defeat caching?  And 'forward first' only looks in cache after a
>> forward fails?  This does not sound right and I am missing something in
>> the documentation; like forwarding ONLY applies IF the query is NOT in
>> cache?
>
> No, you've misunderstood.
>
>
> "forward first" means "try the forwarders, and if you don't get a 
> reply, try the query yourself starting from the root"
>
> "forward only" means "only ever try the forwarders"
>
> "forward" replies are always cached for the relevant TTL.

OK.  This is what I was hoping it meant, but I was not good at 
expressing it.