The state of resolv.conf

Benny Amorsen benny+usenet at amorsen.dk
Tue Sep 16 21:38:08 UTC 2008


Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> writes:

> If you have your local server set up as a caching DNS server, it
> wouldn't matter, as your local server wouldn't use $PROVIDER's server
> at all, and would resolve things itself via the root servers (just as
> the provider's servers would do, though they will have a bigger
> cache).

Recursive DNS servers are often set up for forwarding. 


/Benny




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