forward queries/transfer refused

[Michael Kjorling]

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Why not just delegate the zone to him in the standard manner? Whoever
provided the 63.97.20/24 IP space to you must have put in a RDNS
delegation. Have them change that delegation from your servers to his.


Michael Kjörling


On Jun 28 2001 12:17 -0400, Tyler Parkin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We have a customer who is requesting that we forward reverse zone
> queries to his dns server.
>
> In /etc/named.conf I have:
>
> zone "20.97.63.in-addr.arpa"
>   { type forward;
>     forward only;
> 	forwarders {63.82.200.21;};
> };
>
> I am receiving the following xfer errors in /var/log/messages:
>
> /snip/
>
> I'm a little confused by the "transfer refused" part.  Is that his
> server refusing to transfer the zone to ours, or is our server trying to
> transfer a zone (how? which one?) to his server and his is refusing it?
> I'm not dead set on doing it this way.  If there is a better way to
> forward the queries to his server, let me know.  I searched through the
> archives, but didn't see it.  To be clear, his network is NOT part of
> ours, and he is running his own primary DNS.

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