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4. ForwardingIn large, well organized, academic or ISP (Internet Service Provider)
networks you will sometimes find that the network people have set up a forwarder
hierarchy of DNS servers which helps lighten the internal network load and the
load on the outside servers as well. It's not easy to know if you're inside such
a network or not. It is however not important and by using the DNS server of
your network provider as a ``forwarder'' you can make the responses to queries
faster and less of a load on your network. If you use a modem this can be quite
a win. For the sake of this example we assume that your network provider has two
name servers they want you to use, with IP numbers
forward first; forwarders { 10.0.0.1; 10.1.0.1; };
There is also a nice trick for dialup machines using forwarders, it is described in the qanda section.
Restart your nameserver and test it with dig. Should work fine.
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