Another newbie question. Thank you.

[Simon Waters]

Joe Kattner wrote:
> 
> If 9.14.1.30 is the internal server this is on, why do you list it as a
> forwarder?

This isn't 9.14.1.30 as I read it, but there seems to some
confusion as to whether this is a network with private root
servers, or whether these are servers to forward to.

If you are forwarding to these servers - forward-only.

If they are internal roots (and I'm sure IBM would have more
than 1!) then you can lose the forwarding and BIND will pick up
an appropriate server.

If this is the IBM we know and love there will be internal
documentation for this I'm sure. Probably several volumes, with
some pages deliberately left blank.... We can second guess, but
it would be more productive to speak to the powers that be.
 
> If you're using a private internal root zone, then the type in named.conf is
> master, not hint.

He said it is a cache so "hint" may be appropriate, "master" it
certainly isn't.

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