Hi Julian,

> >The way I interpret that is that if an address cannot be resolved in
> >my DNS cache, then it looks to my ISP's nameserver (and ideally finds
> >the answer in its cache). Otherwise how is this any different than
> >putting the ISP's nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf (I'm gathering that
> >you're saying it's not any different).
> 
> Exactly. It isn't, effectively.

 I would say there is a difference, being that the local machine that is 
running bind instead of querying the ISP's nameserver directly is building a 
cache for itself, thus reducing traffic for repeated queries. It's effectively 
a caching only setup, with the difference that it will query your ISP's DNS 
instead of talking to the root servers directly.

                                        Bye,

                                        Leonard.




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