BIND 8.3.3-REL question about forwarders
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Sat Nov 30 14:27:32 UTC 2002
> Hi,
>
> I have BIND 8.3.3 setup on my primary DNS for one of my zones lets call
> it xxx.tld, I would like to be able to forward all requests to
> yyy.xxx.tld to other intranet dns servers which provide dynamic
> functinally. The problem im having is that the primary dns for xxx.tld
> isn't forwarding any requests for the subzone.
You need to delegate yyy.xxx.tld. Forward zones only have effect
it the server recurses and for it to recure it needs a delegation
*and* a recursive query.
Mark
> In my named.conf file I have
>
> zone "xxx.tld" in {
> type master;
> file "xxx.tld";
> allow-transfer {
> external_dns_1;
> external_dns_2;
> external_dns_3;
> };
> };
>
> zone "yyy.xxx.tld" in {
> type forward;
> forward only;
> forwards {
> internal_dynamic_dns1;
> internal_dynamic_dns2;
> };
> };
>
> Note that both internal dynamic dns's return the right answers
> when queried directly, however when querying the the primary
> dns for xxx.tld for say zzz.yyy.xxx.tld it return NXDOMAIN
> even though, like I said, querying internal_dynamic_dns1 returns
> the right record for zzz.yyy.xxx.tld.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> --
> Colin Faber
> (303) 736-5160
> fpsn.net, Inc.
>
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>
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