Trouble with bind 8.2.2-P5

[Quadri, Jay]

Ha! you noticed, Jesus himself said do what I say not what I do, something
along those lines I .  In theory it should work, but it doesn't, It might
work for somebody else, because I don't administer the other DNS servers I
am forwarding to, all the more difficult to know where my failure is, it
does puzzle me though that forward=first; returns queries from the other
Internal DNS, but not internet, 'forward only' returns Internet names only,
also my resolver does not work properly, it seems to query the first
nameserver its sees in the Network settings (resolv.conf), doesn't query the
second nameserver in the list.  one day I'll nail the bastard maybe.


-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Darcy [mailto:kcd at daimlerchrysler.com]
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2000 10:13 PM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: Re: Trouble with bind 8.2.2-P5



I find it puzzling that, in this thread, you would recommend forwarding to
both
internal and external servers, even as, in another thread, you're asking why
it
doesn't work properly...


- Kevin

Quadri, Jay wrote:

> Not a bug, Sounds like you want to write you own named.root or named.ca
file
> as oppose to using the Internet's version. You new named.root file will
> contain your master Intranet DNS server e.g.
>
> .                                3600000  IN NS    elf-antar.fr.
> elf-antar.fr                      3600000  IN A     IP Address (Internal)
>
> The next thing is to put a
>
> forwarders      {
>   IP address ;  i.e your external DNS IP
> Other Internal DNS IP Addresses;
> };
>
> forward         first ;
>
> In the named.boot file of the Internal DNS server.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thierry DEPETRIS [mailto:thierry.depetris at elf-antar.fr]
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 9:38 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: Trouble with bind 8.2.2-P5
>
> I have an internal DNS who manage my zone elf-antar.fr. This DNS is
> behind a Firewall and is configured to forward
> requests to another Bind that is on Internet. This external Bind also
> manage the zone elf-antar.fr but on Internet.
>
> The Internal DNS has some stub, slave and forward link to others
> internal zones.
>
> All the requests works fine (on all my internal zones and on external
> zones) but when I look to the tcp/ip traffic,
> I see that my internal DNS try to contact all the root-servers.net on
> Internet.
> The firewall block the requests so the dns retries permanently.
>
> I think that with the use of this release of Bind and with the forward
> only option there's no problem.
> Do you know if this problem is a bug ? If not do you know a parameter to
>
> turn on to stop the requests ?
>
> Thanks for your response.