Forwarder configuration example

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Fri Dec 29 16:57:14 UTC 2000


In article <92ieco$lrd at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Diego Balgera <diego.balgera at nokia.com> wrote:
>Hi smart guys,
>can you post an example (named.conf and zone files) of a dns bind 8
>configured to be a forwarder dns?

There are no zone files in a forwarder, except for the boilerplate hints
and "127.in-addr.arpa" zones that should be the same on all servers.  To
make a server a forwarder, use:

options {
  forwarders { <address of upstream server>; };
  forward only;
};

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