forwarding on zone base does'nt work; again

[Barry Finkel]

Thomas Stalder <tom at coco.ch> wrote:

>I'm running Bind 8.2.2-P5 on a Sun Ultra 5, with Solaris 7.
>Configured as master for a few 'internal' domains and slave for
>a few more 'internal' domains. This works fine so far.
>I tried to set up a forwarder for another internal domain,
>which does not allow zone transfers.
>
>This does not work. I get following:
>
>Jan 12 15:49:12 dns001 named[164]: reloading nameserver
>Jan 12 15:49:12 dns001 named[164]: /etc/named.conf:59: syntax error near forward
>Jan 12 15:49:12 dns001 named[164]: no type specified for zone 'firm-internal.com'
>Jan 12 15:49:12 dns001 named[164]: zone 'firm-internal.com' did not validate, skipping
>Jan 12 15:49:12 dns001 named[164]: /etc/named.conf:64: syntax error near '}'
>Jan 12 15:49:12 dns001 named[164]: Ready to answer queries.
>
>
>That's how the it looks in the named.conf file:
>
>zone "firm-internal.com" in {		//  <- line 58  (my comments)
>	type forward;
>	forward only;
>	forwarders {
>     	10.41.8.91;				//  <- Intranet  Name Server
>	};
>};

My reading of the BIND book (3rd edition) shows that in line 58 you
need parentheses surrounding the string "in":

     zone "firm-internal.com" (in) { 

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