Forwarding Zones with Bind 8

[Cricket Liu]

> Does anyone know of an issue with forwarding reverse records with bind 8.1
> on SunOS 5.7 ?
> 
> A little more detail
> 
> We have a Sun server running Bind 8.1 (or atleast an early release of
> Bind 8) We need to do delegate 4 class C blocks for reverse lookup. On 
> RedHat 7.X servers running Bind 9 I can do this by configuring 
> forwarding for
> the in-addr.arpa zones to the delegated name server hosting the reverse
> records. But if it is done on a SunOS running bind 8 it fails to resolve
> via the delegated name server.
> 
> If any one knows why this is or can point me towards more direct document
> that can shed some light on this let me know. 

If by "forwarding" you mean "forward zones," BIND 8 doesn't support them
until 8.2.

cricket

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