[Pdns-users] pdns-recursor forwarder setting

[Juergen Georgi]

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