Forwarding nameserver, help needed.

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

	"forward only;" is broken in 8.2.  Use 8.2.1.

	Mark

> Hi
> 
> I'd be really happy if someone could help me here...
> 
> I'm trying to set up a forwarding DNS server using bind 8.2. But I
> cannot get it to forward requests. My local domain is aalk.auc.dk, and
> I want everything else forwarded. I have no problem looking up
> adresses in my local domain.
> 
> This is my named.conf:
> options {
> 	directory "/var/named";
> 	forward only;
> 	forwarders{
> 		130.225.54.2;
> 	};
> };
> zone "aalk.auc.dk"{
> 	type master;
> 	file "named.aalk";
> };
> zone "74.168.192.in-addr.arpa"{
> 	type master;
> 	file "named.192.168.74";
> };
> zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa"{
> 	type master;
> 	file "named.local";
> };
> zone "." {
> 	type hint;
> 	file "named.ca";
> };
> 
> named.ca is empty since I want to use forward only. I have followed
> the instructions of: http://hjb-net.de/linux/named_e.html. (I also
> tried to play with dnsconf, but no luck here either.)
> 
> 
> If it can help you here's a little debug info resulting from starting
> named and looking up sunsite.auc.dk:
> 
> /var/log/messages (I cut out the dates and stuff):
> starting.  named 8.2 Wed Mar 31 10:57:12 EST 1999
> ^Iroot at porky.devel.redhat.com:/usr/src/bs/BUILD/bind-8.2/src/bin/named 
> Zone "aalk.auc.dk" (file named.aalk): No default TTL set using SOA
> minimum instead 
> master zone "aalk.auc.dk" (IN) loaded (serial 1999090501)
> Zone "74.168.192.in-addr.arpa" (file named.192.168.74): No default TTL
> set using SOA minimum instead 
> master zone "74.168.192.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1997110901)
> Zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (file named.local): No default TTL set
> using SOA minimum instead 
> master zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" (IN) loaded (serial 1997022700)
> cache zone "" (IN) loaded (serial 0)
> ctl_server: bind: Address already in use
> listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
> listening on [192.168.74.10].53 (eth0)
> Forwarding source address is [0.0.0.0].2257
> Ready to answer queries.
> No root nameservers for class IN
> 
> 
> named.run (debuglevel 1):
> req: nlookup(sunsite.auc.dk) id 4923 type=1 class=1
> req: found 'sunsite.auc.dk' as 'auc.dk' (cname=0)
> findns: No root nameservers for class IN?
> No root nameservers for class IN
ns_req: answer -> [192.168.74.10].2258 fd=22 id=4923 size=32 rc=2
> datagram from [192.168.74.10].2258, fd 22, len 44
> req: nlookup(sunsite.auc.dk.aalk.auc.dk) id 4924 type=1 class=1
> req: found 'sunsite.auc.dk.aalk.auc.dk' as 'aalk.auc.dk' (cname=0)
> ns_req: answer -> [192.168.74.10].2258 fd=22 id=4924 size=103 rc=3
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> .morten
> 
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> Morten Laursen # 9th sem Data Engineering Student # Aalborg University
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> 
> 
> 
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