Search Again: Re: recursive lookups From: Men & Mice Support Date: Friday, December 13, 2002 Time: 9:15:04 am At 8:46 AM +0100 12/13/02, Peter Duchateau wrote: >In the preferences there is "Resolver" with 2 options >- recursive query resolving >- use forwarder(s) > - work as slave server > >Which setting should I use and why ? By default, with the setting at recursive query resolving, your server handles recursion itself. When a query comes in from a client machine, your server does all the work necessary to resolve that name. With forwarding turned on, your server will simply relay the client request to another DNS server, and let that other server do all the heavy lifting. This is desirable in situations when a DNS server is not able to access the Internet or has a slow Internet connection. Normally, when forwarding, the DNS server has a fairly short timeout period for the forwarder (the upstream DNS server) to respond. If that forwarder (or those forwarders) doesn't/don't respond in that time, it will go ahead and try to do the lookup itself. If the "work as slave server" option is turned on, it will not do this and will rely entirely on its forwarders. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy

Messages In This Thread: recursive lookups by Peter Duchateau on Dec 12, 2002 at 11:47:18 pm Re: recursive lookups by Men & Mice Support on Dec 13, 2002 at 9:15:04 am