do not use recursion under forwarders "CNewsReader" <carl[ at ]anywhere.com> 10/19/2008 6:50:51 PM If I turn off recursion under forwarders- how will that effect my DNS performance and reliability Thanks Cardi

Re: do not use recursion under forwarders Meinolf Weber <meiweb(nospam)[ at ]gmx.de> 10/19/2008 9:18:43 PM Hello CNewsReader, See here about recursion and the effects: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc775637.aspx http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/Understanding-DNS-Recursion.html Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm [Quoted Text] > If I turn off recursion under forwarders- how will that effect my DNS > performance and reliability > > Thanks > > Cardi >

Re: do not use recursion under forwarders "Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]" <admin[ at ]nospam.WFTX.US> 10/23/2008 1:12:54 AM Read inline please. In news:OLD%23cuhMJHA.3496[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl, CNewsReader <carl[ at ]anywhere.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > If I turn off recursion under forwarders- how will that effect my DNS > performance and reliability When you set "Do not use recursion" on a forwarder, it means that DNS will wait until the query times out for an answer from the forwarder, if the forwarder doesn't answer, the query fails and it won't use recursion from the root servers. This is handy when you need to resolve a trusted domain, and it would be unacceptable for it to query the Root Servers for a private domain. -- Best regards, Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] Hope This Helps =================================== When responding to posts, please "Reply to Group" via your newsreader so that others may learn and benefit from your issue, to respond directly to me remove the nospam. from my email address. =================================== http://www.lonestaramerica.com/ http://support.wftx.us/ http://message.wftx.us/ =================================== Use Outlook Express?... Get OE_Quotefix: It will strip signature out and more http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ =================================== Keep a back up of your OE settings and folders with OEBackup: http://www.oehelp.com/OEBackup/Default.aspx ===================================