--- Herb Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I'm no DNS expert, so am wondering if I am shooting myself
> > in the foot by having "forwarders" set up in my BIND config
> > file, especially with "forward
> > first":
>
> > Where xxx and yyy are the DNS servers for my colo provider
> > where I host the system in question. Does this defeat the
> > purpose of local caching or am I OK?
>
> No. Resolution by forwarders is also cached by
> the requesting (forwarding) DNS server.
>
> It does expose you to any corruption (e.g., cache
> polution) of your colocator's DNS -- but if you
> trust them to do as good or better job of running
> DNS securely (than you can do) then that probably
> doesn't matter. (You did say you are not an expert.)
Thank you!
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