Re: OT: Forwarding to your ISP

>>>>> "Kirk" == Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> writes:

Kirk> I apologize in advance for bringing this up, but it's always
Kirk> been my understanding that the Internet is better off if
Kirk> everyone forwarded their requests to their upstream provider
Kirk> (caching and all that).

This may have been valid 15-20 years ago when a campus would have a
56k link to the net and every packet on the WAN mattered. But not today.

Kirk> I know this has been discussed
Kirk> before, but the usual answer I've heard to the question is
Kirk> along the lines of "search the archives". I seem to be
Kirk> Google-impaired because I've never found a concise summary
Kirk> of why directly querying the root servers is better than
Kirk> forwarding. Any chance you could point me toward an
Kirk> explanation somewhere?

The BIND mailing list archives are found at www.isc.org. Go there and
type "forwarding" into the search box and you will be enlightened.