Morning folks :-) Well the local DNS is building a cache anyway - whether it's configured to use the upstream server as a forwarder or not.
I was doing some research late into last night to provide an accurate answer to this. It'll come in a separate post in a few minutes, julian. =============== At 01:02 PM 1/6/02 +0100, you wrote: > 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. > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Redhat-list mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list ---------------------------------------------------------------- Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after me ... Julian Opificius. ICQ 3268206. ---------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
