Internal DNS + External Lookup issues

[Kevin Darcy]

Try specifying "forward only".


- Kevin

Ed Stafford wrote:

> Hello.  I would assume this is possible from what I
> have read, but all similar occurances that I've come
> across have failed.  Here is what I am trying to do:
>
> I have one server with a single NIC inside.  This is
> on a 192.168.10.0 network.  We have a firewall
> connected to the outside world that does lookups for
> us.  It's address is 192.168.10.254.  Normally, we
> just use the .254 address in our /etc/resolv.conf.  I
> want to run bind on my server so that I can administer
> a local domain from it, but any lookup that isn't
> hosted by my instance of bind will query the .254
> address.
>
> So I should be able to look up www.internal.net
> locally, but when I request www.yahoo.com, it should
> query the .254 system.
>
> I've tried using the 'forwarders' option in the
> /etc/named.conf file like:
> options {
>   directory "/usr/local/bind";
>   auth-nxdomain no;
>   query-source port 53;
>   forwarders {
>     192.168.10.254;
>   };
>   allow-query {
>     127.0.0.1;
>     192.168.10/24;
>   };
> };
>
> I can't figure out what the problem is.  Anyone?
>
> Ed Stafford
>
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