Chad W. Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know of a good site that explains the configuration of bind.
Try http://www.isc.org
The O'Reilly DNS & BIND book is also a good reference, but make sure you
get the latest edition that covers BIND8 (the 3rd edition, I think)
>Also, what exactly is a forwarder. Am I correct in assuming you can setup a
>server that can be authoritative to a local zone and if it does not have a
>requested address it forwards the request to another DNS server rather than
>resolving the address itself. If so can anyone give me an example as to why
>you would use it.
You're assumption about forwarders is correct. Two things that make
forwarders useful that spring to mind are:
1) Use them to create a larger pool of cached nslookups.
2) Use them in conjunction with firewall rules to help protect your local
DNS server a bit more by only allowing DNS requests/answers to come from
specific IP addresses.
-Eric
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