how to forward?

[Danny Mayer]

At 07:10 AM 8/22/01, David Portabella wrote:
>i have a little local network, and i need to install an internal dns server.
>
>we only need the dns server for caching purposes, so i want my internal
>dns server to forward all request to my isp dns server.
>
>i'm using the BIND8.2.4-NT2.
>
>if i do a nslookpup to any domain using my isp dns server, it works, so
>there is not problem with my firewall.
>
>but if a do a nslookup to any domain using my internal dns server,
>it cannot resolve it.

You didn't say exactly what the error message was.  I suspect that the IP
address of your internal dns server is not registered so nslookup complained
and gave up.  nslookup is a bad tool to use for this reason.  Use dig (which
comes with the install kit).  dig doesn't care about whether or not the IP
address points to a name.

         Danny

>here goes my name.conf. (195.235.113.3 is my isp dns server)
>
>what am i doing bad?
>thank you
>david
>
>
>name.conf
>----------
>acl mynameservers {any;};
>acl myrecursers {any;};
>
>options
>{
>directory "c:\winnt\system32\dns\etc";
>allow-transfer {mynameservers;};
>allow-recursion {myrecursers;};
>forward only;
>forwarders {195.235.113.3;};
>fetch-glue no;
>version "";
>use-id-pool yes;
>};
>
>zone "." {type hint; file "db.cache"; };