Trouble with bind 8.2.2-P5

[Kevin Darcy]

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.