alternate port / alternate way for master DNS zone xfers ?

[Cricket Liu]

> I have my own network with it's own DNS and it all works fine. 
> My problem is that I have a link to someone else's network
> using a CISCO ISDN router that i have no control over.  My problem is 
> that I cannot get my DNS to forward requests for their DNS through the
> router.  If I nslookup using their server it works fine, but if I use my
> server it fails.  I need my named to talk to their named as though it
> was a client and not a named itself.  Is this possible?

Do you want your name server to forward all queries to this remote name
server, or just queries for certain domain names?  In the former case, you
can configure their name server as your name server's forwarder.  In the
latter case, you'll need the conditional forwarding mechanism in BIND 8.2+.

cricket

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