Paul M Foster wrote:
> Chris Mathey wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> If they offer to slave your DNS then that solves the redundancy issue.
>>
>> If you are authoritative then all that means is the internet root DNS
>> servers list your server and johncompanies.com slave as the resolver
>> for your domain(s). You enter this information via your domain registrar.
>> You will still need local resolution of internet address and should
>> ask johncompanies.com what servers to use.
>>
>
> Okay, I got the authoritative and slaving thing. But "local resolution"?
> By "local" do you mean at my server on the internet? If so, I assume
> that I'd set it up so that any query originating on my internet box
> would be resolved by the DNS on that box.
>
> <snip>
I always thought it was better to use your ISP's DNS server as a
forwarder instead of using the root.hints. They usually have the answer
cached. In other words all external resolution is done though either
johncompanies DNS or opendns.com. My rudimentary test might have failed
me but DNS seems to work faster this way.
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