Problem Setting up a Subdomain

[Barry Margolin]

In article <38E27C81.EF411CA3 at imall.com>,
Roark Fisher  <fisherr at imall.com> wrote:
>  In troubleshooting, I feel the problem may be with my use of
>forwarders.  To resolve external address, my parent DNS server makes use
>of forwarders on an external network to resolve Internet address.  I
>noted that if I set the first forwarder in the list to be dns2.foo.com,
>then I can resolve all names (but things get very slow).  If I take
>dns2.foo.com out of the forwarder list (or move it to another position
>in the list), I cannot lookup any name in the little.foo.com domain.

When you tell a nameserver to use forwarders, it doesn't follow NS
records.  The normal reason using forwarders is because the machine can't
reach any other nameservers.

If you want to make an exceptions for your own domain, add "forwarders {};"
to the foo.com zone definition.

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