On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 09:38:43AM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote: > > For the other part, if you're running your own nameserver, > > why would you want to use forwarders at all? > > The use of forwarders is a good thing. It reduces the load on the root > servers, and your DNS server gets to use closer servers that may already > have the answer.
Actually, in most circumstances the use of forwarders is considered a bad thing by many DNS experts. See USENET comp.protocols.dns.bind for the arguments. -- stephen
