Trouble with bind 8.2.2-P5

[Quadri, Jay]

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.