FYI: forwarding zone combined with root hints

[Kenneth Porter]

I had set up a new server for a client at my site and initially had set the
DNS to forward to my server. I forgot about this when setting it up at his
site and had root hints installed, as well. DNS was mysteriously taking a
long time to resolve (seconds). While chasing another issue, I decided to
look at the server config and found the old forwarding section. Deleting
that immediately cured the slow resolver problem. Apparently if you have
both forwarding and root hints, the forwarding is tried first (I had two
addresses listed, making it worse), before the system falls back to root
hints.

 

[Jonathan de Boyne Pollard]

KP> Apparently if you have both forwarding and root hints, the
KP> forwarding is tried first [...], before the system falls
KP> back to root hints.

.... as the product documentation does actually say. (-:

<URL:http://microsoft.com./technet/prodt...tserver/sag_DNS_und_Forwarders.asp?frame=true>