Bind 8.2.3 force recursive

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9nts6p$h0c at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Chimento, Douglas <Douglas.Chimento at FMR.COM> wrote:
>Perhaps there is a better way...
>I have an external name server, whose name is  ns4. According to the root
>servers ns4 is master for foo.com, However I want to the "real name server",
>ns5,  to answer the queries. So I put a forward by zone statement like so 
>zone foo.com IN {
>	type forward;
>	forwarders { blah ; } ; 
>};
>
>But DNS only answers to recursive queries. Any non-recursive request are not
>answered. 

I think you mean it only forwards recursive queries.

>Some things to keep in mind 
>ns4 cannot become a slave
>I cannot change the root server, ( i.e. ns4 has to be in the root servers) 

If you have to run BIND on ns4, I think you're screwed unless you want to
do some programming.

Why can't you make ns4 a slave or change the delegation records?  You're
asking DNS to do something it's not designed to do.  Who came up with those
restrictions, and can't you tell them that it simply won't work?

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