Newbe question.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9nntsm$eu3 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Bob Kleinbrahm  <rkleinbr at pacbell.net> wrote:
>I am trying to configure 2 linux boxes for DNS for local lan segments.
>I have been successful in configuring primary and 2nd for local DNS
>lookup, but need to be able to do following.  I need to have all outside
>references passed to our ISP DNS host after names not resolved by local
>system.  In other words I would like to have system look at local DNS
>first then pass to outside system.  I haven't been able to figure out
>how to do this as of yet.  Can anyone point me in the right direction or
>a book on the subject?

Include the following options in your named.conf files:

  forward only;
  forwarders { <address of ISP DNS host>; };

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