Countdown in NSLOOKUP
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Jan 18 23:41:11 UTC 2000
Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:58:54PM +0000, oscarh wrote:
> ...
> > I have a DG/UX box that's the primary nameserver for our domain (call it
> > local.com). We have no problems resolving names/hosts in our domain.
> >
> > We are also part of a larger intranet (call it big.com) - we even use the
> > intranet's nameservers for the root domain, and have entered the nameserver
> > info in root.cache thusly:
> >
> > . 99999999 IN NS server.big.com.
> > server.big.com. 99999999 IN A 123.456.789.10
>
> In your named.conf, you should also forward to server.big.com, and set
> "forward only" mode, if - as it seems to me you are saying - you usethis as
> your only gateway to the Internet.
Minor nitpick: that "also" should be an "instead". With a stock BIND 8.2.2-p5
named, the hints file becomes useless once default forwarding is configured.
- Kevin
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