newbie: question about forwarding

/me bows before all bind guru's.

I have just started to explore bind and set up a local nameserver following
the directions in the book DNS and BIND, 4th Edition. By Paul Albitz,
Cricket Liu . It works.and I am about to explore further. but still I've
got this question about forwarders.

I put the ip adresses of the 2 nameservers of my isp as forwarders in
named.conf but in /var/log/messages I now get the message:


Aug 25 18:48:53 ns named[73]: Ready to answer queries.
Aug 25 18:48:53 ns named[73]: non-recursive forwarder: [194.109.9.100].53
Aug 25 18:48:53 ns named[73]: non-recursive forwarder: [194.109.6.67].53

I googled this quite a bit but I cant find answers to the following
questions:

1) am I wrong in my thinking the nameservers of my isp would make great
forwarders?. I think they could answer a lot of my queries from cache?

2) Why on earth would my isp make the nameservers non-recursive? What's the
point, whats in it for them?

Thanx for helping a newbie.. for config files see below

Mike
>------------------------------------------------------------------<


$ cat named.conf ddesk.nl.db db.192.168.1 db.127.0.0

-> named.conf <-

// $FreeBSD: src/etc/namedb/named.conf,v 1.6.2.7 2003/02/13 13:16:51
keramida Exp $
//

options {
directory "/etc/namedb";
forwarders { 194.109.6.67; 194.109.9.100; };
};
/* logging {
channel my_syslog {
syslog daemon;
severity dynamic;
print-category yes;
print-severity yes;
};
channel my_file {
file "log.msgs";
severity dynamic;
print-category yes;
print-severity yes;
};
category default {my_syslog;my_file;};
category statistics {my_syslog;my_file;};
category queries {my_syslog;my_file;};
};
*/
zone "ddesk.nl" in
{
type master;
file "ddesk.nl.db";
};

zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa"
{
type master;
file "db.192.168.1";
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in
{
type master;
file "db.127.0.0";
};

zone "."
{
type hint;
file "db.cache";
};

-> ddesk.nl.db <-

$TTL 3h
ddesk.nl. IN SOA ns.ddesk.nl. hostmaster.domain.com. (
2004081712 ;serial number
3h ;refresh after 3 hours
1h ;retry after 1 hour
1w ;expire after 1 week
1h ) ;negative caching TTL of 1hour
;
;Nameserver
ddesk.nl. IN NS ns.ddesk.nl.
;
;Addresses
ns IN A 192.168.1.101
laptop IN A 192.168.1.201
wp2 IN A 192.168.1.202
wp3 IN A 192.168.1.203

-> db.192.168.1 <-

$TTL 3h
1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ns.ddesk.nl. hostmaster.ddesk.nl. (
2004081712 ;serial
3h ;refresh rate (3 hours)
1h ;retry (1 hour)
1w ;expire (1 week)
1h ) ;negative caching TTL (1 hour)
;
; Name server
1.168.192.in-addr.arpa. IN NS ns.ddesk.nl.
;
;Adresses
101 IN PTR ns.ddesk.nl.
201 IN PTR laptop.ddesk.nl.
202 IN PTR wp2.ddesk.nl.
203 IN PTR wp3.ddesk.nl.

-> db.127.0.0 <-

$TTL 3h
0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ns.ddesk.nl. hostmaster.ddesk.nl. (
2004081001 ; serial
3h ; refresh after 3 hours
1h ; retry after 1 hour
1w ; expire after 1 week
1h ) ; negative caching TTL of 1 hour

0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN NS ns.ddesk.nl.

1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR localhost.

EOF