Internic Question

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I read that external dns servers should be pointed to the InterNIC servers,
not our ISP's. Can someone point me to how to set this up (the ip addresses
of the servers)?

I can't find anything on InterNICs site that references this.

Thanks.
 
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Zak said:
I read that external dns servers should be pointed to the
InterNIC servers, not our ISP's. Can someone point me to
how to set this up (the ip addresses of the servers)?
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You need to clarify this, you do not point DNS servers to other DNS servers,
except by delegation, and there would be no reason to delegate anything to
InterNIC servers, which I think you are really talking about the Root
Servers. If you are actually talking about forwarding, you can't forward to
the Root servers anyway. Servers used as forwarders must be recursive and
the Root servers are not recursive. By default MS DNS servers that do not
have a root zone, will load Root Hints which your DNS server will use
recusion to resolve names on its own, forwarders are in no way required to
resolve names on the internet. They can help take some of the load off your
DNS server, they can also slow your DNS server down, because your DNS server
will wait until the forwarding timeout for queries it forwards.

What that means, is that if you have the forwarding timeout set to 5 seconds
(default) your DNS server will wait 5 seconds before using root hints to
resolve names. If the forwarder is down or unavailable, 5 seconds can seem
like a long wait.
I can't find anything on InterNICs site that references
this.
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You won't find anything either.
 
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