Forward directive...

[Kevin Darcy]

"Query refused" typically means you've screwed up an "allow-query"
somewhere. That would be in the part of the config file you *didn't* show
(grrrrr). Obviously, if your nameserver is refusing a query, it's not going
to generate any traffic to the forwarders...


- Kevin

montgemia at my-deja.com wrote:

> Wonder if anyone has any comments on experience with forward and
> forwarders directives.  I had success with bind9 and geting a Split DNS
> configuration but am having no success with bind 8.2.2p7
>
> for the internal DNS server the important line in the named.conf file
> are as follows
>
> options {
> forward only;
> forwarders { ip-addr; ip-addr; };
> };
>
> zone "internal.zone.com" {
> forwarders { };
> };
>
> in bind 9 this would resolv the internal hostnames without problems, but
> in bind 8 it seems to be ignoring the options part of the file, because
> when I snoop the interface looking for traffic to the external dns, I
> get no traffic and nslookup reponds with "query refused".  Is there any
> documentation with bind 8.2.2p7 for split DNS, I see a query-source
> directive, but that didn't do anything.  We found some problems with the
> sunfreeware version of bind 9 and had to step back but wanted the
> functionality for split DNS which I have seen documents on ISC that
> refer to doing that with bind 8.2.2p7
>