Re: OT: Forwarding to your ISP

Barry Margolin wrote:
>In article <cbv0gn$20bn$1@sf1.isc.org>,
> Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> wrote:
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>>On Wednesday 2004-06-30 11:51 am, Barry Margolin wrote:
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>>>ISP servers are already handling a huge load, so it's not uncommon for
>>>them to be overloaded (even the best run ISPs occasionally encounter
>>>unexpected activity, or get deliberate DOS attacks), and you'll suffer as
>>>a result.
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>>That seems pretty reasonable. It would be introducing a single point of
>>failure where one need not exist.
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>I was going to say that, but it's not quite true, since you can list
>multiple forwarders. So unless all of the ISP's servers share a common
>point of failure, you're OK in that respect.
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If you use "forward first" will that not solve that situation? I
understood that it is supposed to try the forwarders, if they fail to
provide an answer for any reason, it will do the whole work by itself?

Or did I misread something?

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