trying to get forwarding working - domain name appended twice

[Cricket Liu]

Rob L wrote:
> I have a BIND 8 dns server (Solaris 8).  I'm trying to set it up to
> forward
>> all queries to domain "me.com" to be sent to another DNS server that
>> has the records for me.com.  When I set it up and try an nslookup
>> for test.me.com, it doesn't work.  I do a snoop on the DNS server
>> and see that the domain name has been apended twice.  Everything has
>> been running fine for months. My server hosts 2x zones and around 6
>> reverse records.  Any ideas? 
> 
> Here are parts of my named.conf...
> 
> options {
>   allow-transfer { 10.0.1.36; 10.0.1.37; };
>   directory "/export/dnsdata";
>   recursion no;
> };
> 
> 
> zone "me.com" {
>   type master;
>   file "me_com.hosts";
>   forwarders { 10.9.3.18; 10.9.3.19; };
> };
> 
> 
> I don't have a cache (hints) file.  I don't think this should matter
> though as BIND has the root servers built in.

BIND 9 does, but you said you're running BIND 8.

cricket

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