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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Randy Bush wrote: > > it is a best practice to separate authoritative and recursive servers. > e.g. a small isp has a hundred auth zones (secondaried far > away and off-net, of course) and runs cache. why should > they separate auth from cache? and it means that you can use software that specializes in the authoritative or recursive operation or if you use the same software optimise your configuration for either operation. Even if they decide to combine the two and ignore other problems people have listed then from the customer end they should be seperate so that it is an option to split them in the future. Migrating 10% of your customers base who have the "wrong" name servers hardcoded in their machines is *never* fun. -- Simon J. Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.
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