Removing forwarders in named.conf .. is this bad?
What problems might I encounter because I have toasted the forwarders
statement in my gateway's named.conf??
My gateway seemed to lose contact with the ISP DNS's when I upgraded the
potato bind package following the announcement about the worm (yes, that is
now a part of my source.list file.. :). I was suspicious about my ISP's
end of things. Nearly any address I tried with a browser failed (except for
a few very recently visited entries). Mail worked, and I could ping dot
quad'd ip addresses (or is it "quad dotted"? Sorry, I'm not a guru at this
stuff..), _except_ for the forwarders addresses in named.conf, which IIRC are
my ISP DNS boxes.
I just removed the forwarders statement found in the /etc/bind/named.conf
file without knowing if named would find other servers. I had noticed a
number of listings in db.cache, which was listed as a hint zone in the
named.conf file. I assume these were found before??
This move was based on reading some of the documentation, but without a
complete understanding of it or the consequences.
Things now seem to work, but I am concerned that I am doing something wrong.
Can anyone assure me one way or the other? I don't want this set up
incorrectly or insecurely.
TIA,
Kenward
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books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the
learning of many facts but the training of the mind to thinking--something
that cannot be learned from books. Albert Einstein
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