BIND 8.3.3-REL question about forwarders

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> Hi,
> 
> I have BIND 8.3.3 setup on my primary DNS for one of my zones lets call
> it xxx.tld, I would like to be able to forward all requests to
> yyy.xxx.tld to other intranet dns servers which provide dynamic
> functinally. The problem im having is that the primary dns for xxx.tld
> isn't forwarding any requests for the subzone.

	You need to delegate yyy.xxx.tld.  Forward zones only have effect
	it the server recurses and for it to recure it needs a delegation
	*and* a recursive query.

	Mark
 
> In my named.conf file I have
> 
> zone "xxx.tld" in {
> 	type master;
> 	file "xxx.tld";
> 	allow-transfer {
> 		external_dns_1;
> 		external_dns_2;
> 		external_dns_3;
> 	};
> };
> 
> zone "yyy.xxx.tld" in {
> 	type forward;
> 	forward only;
> 	forwards {
> 		internal_dynamic_dns1;
> 		internal_dynamic_dns2;
> 	};
> };
> 
> Note that both internal dynamic dns's return the right answers
> when queried directly, however when querying the the primary
> dns for xxx.tld for say zzz.yyy.xxx.tld it return NXDOMAIN
> even though, like I said, querying internal_dynamic_dns1 returns
> the right record for zzz.yyy.xxx.tld.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
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> Colin Faber
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> 
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> 
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