non-local queries died on upgrade to 8.2.3

[Kevin Darcy]

Okay, so what were you trying to accomplish by defining the root zone as both
"type hint" and "type master"? What's in "named.root_primary" that you want
named to know about? Does it work the way you want if you just define the root
zone as a hints zone exclusively?


- Kevin

Weeve wrote:

> The server is the master server for several domains as well, I just removed
> them when I posted the configuration file.
>
> Weeve
>
> "Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> wrote in message
> news:95o0lu$4l6 at pub3.rc.vix.com...
> >
> > Define the root zone as "type hint" *only*. Since you are forwarding, this
> is
> > the only reasonable setting. I'm not quite sure what you were trying to
> > accomplish by configuring root as "type master"; if you want to serve
> internal
> > domains in addition to forwarding for Internet names, then you have to
> define
> > your internal domains in such a way as to distinguish them from Internet
> ones,
> > e.g. at the "example.com" level or farther down in the hierarchy.
> >
> > I'm very surprised that this configuration worked under 8.2...
> >
> >
> > - Kevin
> >
> > Weeve wrote:
> >
> > > Ok, the dns server in question is 208.161.3.155  The servers it was
> > > forwarding requests to are 199.171.167.2 and 199.171.167.4
> > >
> > > This is what the config file looks like.
> > >
> > > options {
> > > #
> > > # boot file for name server
> > > #
> > >         directory "/etc";
> > >         multiple-cnames yes;
> > >         recursion yes;
> > >         forwarders {
> > >                 199.171.167.2;
> > >                 199.171.167.4;
> > >                 };
> > >         forward first;
> > > };
> > >
> > > # type domain source host/file backup file
> > > zone "." {
> > >         type master;
> > >         file "named.root_primary";
> > >         type hint;
> > >         file "named.root_cache";
> > > };
> > >
> > > Thanks again,
> > > Weeve
> > > <peter at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu.invalid> wrote in message
> > > news:95mhe4$m41 at pub3.rc.vix.com...
> > > >
> > > > Weeve <remove-this-to-email-weeve at capital.net> wrote:
> > > > > I upgraded BIND from 8.2.2 to 8.2.3 and now the server no longer
> answers
> > > > > queries for zones that are not local.  None of the configuration
> files
> > > were
> > > > > changed.  Any help would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Could be just about _any_ reason.
> > > >
> > > > Why don't you tell us the nameservers address so we _could_ get a
> clue?
> > > >
> > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > Weeve
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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