What problems might I encounter because I have toasted the forwarders statement in my gateway's named.conf??
My gateway seemed to lose contact with the ISP DNS's when I upgraded the potato bind package following the announcement about the worm (yes, that is now a part of my source.list file.. :). I was suspicious about my ISP's end of things. Nearly any address I tried with a browser failed (except for a few very recently visited entries). Mail worked, and I could ping dot quad'd ip addresses (or is it "quad dotted"? Sorry, I'm not a guru at this stuff..), _except_ for the forwarders addresses in named.conf, which IIRC are my ISP DNS boxes. I just removed the forwarders statement found in the /etc/bind/named.conf file without knowing if named would find other servers. I had noticed a number of listings in db.cache, which was listed as a hint zone in the named.conf file. I assume these were found before?? This move was based on reading some of the documentation, but without a complete understanding of it or the consequences. Things now seem to work, but I am concerned that I am doing something wrong. Can anyone assure me one way or the other? I don't want this set up incorrectly or insecurely. TIA, Kenward -- It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he doesn't really need a college education, for he can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to thinking--something that cannot be learned from books. Albert Einstein
