phony TLD

[Quadri, Jay]

What you probably want to do is to check the local cache first,  then
forward (in that order):

forwarders {IP1, IP2, IP3};
forward first;
recursion       YES;

Works for me.



-----Original Message-----
From: Kevin Darcy [mailto:kcd at daimlerchrysler.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 11:23 PM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: phony TLD



Christine Tran wrote:

> >The default behavior for forwarding in BIND is to have the resolver ask
> >the forwarding target for the information, and if an answer isn't found,
> >then to try and resolve the query iteratively. If you want to force the
> >resolver to rely strictly on the forwarding target, add:
> >
> >                       forward only;
>
> Yes I understand that, but as it was relayed to me, named isn't goingto
> the forwarder at all, just goes right to root servers.

I don't believe this.

>  question is,
> can I set up a name server for nutcase.biz.?  if yes, can I have another
> named forward something to ns.nutcase.biz.?

You can set up whatever you want in master files, but in the absence of
being able to get a meaningful delegation for .biz from the Internet root
nameservers, every other server would have to have explicit knowledge about
how to resolve names in the domain, e.g. slave, stub or per-domain
forwarding.


- Kevin