On Wed 2009-04-01 (00:00), Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: > Imre Gergely wrote: > >> Iwas wondering if one could set up a pdns-recursor to forward ALL queries >> to another recursor? > > I don't know, but what is the use exactly? Couldn't you just use the other > recursor directly?
The BIND Administrator Reference has a good description of the "forward [first|only]" option: ARM> Forwarding ARM> ARM> The forwarding facility can be used to create a large site-wide ARM> cache on a few servers, reducing traffic over links to external ARM> name servers. It can also be used to allow queries by servers ARM> that do not have direct access to the Internet, but wish to look ARM> up exterior names anyway. Forwarding occurs only on those queries ARM> for which the server is not authoritative and does not have the ARM> answer in its cache. ARM> ARM> forward ARM> ARM> This option is only meaningful if the forwarders list is not ARM> empty. A value of first, the default, causes the server to ARM> query the forwarders first ? and if that doesn't answer the ARM> question, the server will then look for the answer itself. ARM> If only is specified, the server will only query the forwarders. Yes, I also wish that pdns_recursor will support these forwarding options in a future version. Globally and on a per-zone basis. -Juergen _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users
