Selective forwarding not working?

[Treptow, Craig]

Hi.  This is with BIND 8.2.2-p5 in our test lab.  

Test server beeker (192.168.26.5) is BIND 8.2.2-p5
Test server OS390 (192.168.23.2) is BIND 8.1.?? I think.  (it doesn't respond
to the version.bind query)

In beeker's named.conf I have:

zone "prodplex.principal.com" IN {
        type forward;
        forward only;
        forwarders { 192.168.23.2; };
};

I can query the OS390 server without a problem:

h249ax # dig @192.168.23.2 vruteln.prodplex.principal.com

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @192.168.23.2 vruteln.prodplex.principal.com 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 4
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      vruteln.prodplex.principal.com, type = A, class = IN

;; ANSWER SECTION:
vruteln.prodplex.principal.com.  0S IN A  192.168.19.2

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
prodplex.principal.com.  1D IN NS  mvst.prodplex.principal.com.
prodplex.principal.com.  1D IN NS  mvse.prodplex.principal.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mvst.prodplex.principal.com.  1D IN A  192.168.23.2
mvst.prodplex.principal.com.  1D IN A  162.131.250.29
mvse.prodplex.principal.com.  1D IN A  192.168.20.2
mvse.prodplex.principal.com.  1D IN A  162.131.250.25

;; Total query time: 154 msec
;; FROM: h249ax to SERVER: 192.168.23.2
;; WHEN: Fri Jun 16 14:57:05 2000
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 48  rcvd: 188


but when I query beeker I get:

h249ax # dig @beeker vruteln.prodplex.principal.com         

; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @beeker vruteln.prodplex.principal.com 
; (1 server found)
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 6
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      vruteln.prodplex.principal.com, type = A, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
principal.com.          6H IN SOA       beeker.principal.com.
treptow.craig.pri(
                                        2000061500      ; serial
                                        3H              ; refresh
                                        1H              ; retry
                                        1W              ; expiry
                                        6H )            ; minimum


;; Total query time: 4 msec
;; FROM: h249ax to SERVER: beeker  192.168.26.5
;; WHEN: Fri Jun 16 14:58:02 2000
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 48  rcvd: 118

I believe that I have the syntax correct, but doing "ndc reconfig" or "ndc
reload" never results in a message that prodplex.principal.com was loaded, nor
does it produce any errors that I've found.

So can anybody give me a hint as to what's going on?  

Craig Treptow
Principal Financial Group
I/S Network Administration
(515) 247-6207