Forwarding will not work

[Tom Schmitt]

Hi,

I use Bind 9.3.2 in our intranet and have a delegation for a foreign domain
to a dns-server in a intranet of another company. This works well for me.
But because there is a firewall between our companies, only accessable for
my DNS-Server, all other DNS-Server in my company have a problem when they
ask for a name in the foreign domain: My DNS-Server is telling them the IP
of the authorative DNS-Server of the other comany and they can't reach him
because of the firewall.

So the solution is simple (I thought): Instead of a delegation, I would make
a forwarding for this zone.

I added 
> 
> zone "foreigndomain.othercompany.com" {
>         type forward;
>         forwarders { 10.1.2.3; 10.0.1.2; };
>         forward only;
> };
> 
and reloaded my config with "rndc reconfig".
There was no errormessage in any Logfile, but when I tested the
configuration, I recognized: There is no forwarding, it is still working as
a delegation!

What is my mistake? Is there a magic option to activate forwarding, which I
missed in the documentation? Or did I get the hole "forwarding"-idea wrong?


 

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