Delegation problems

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

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> Mark_Andrews at isc.org wrote in message news:<al8qus$c6r3$1 at isrv4.isc.org>.=
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> > > I'm using bind4 at the moment.  I know I should be using bind 8 or 9
> > > but there were reasons...
> > > So how do I change the global forwarding option in the named4
> > > named.boot file to ensure that lookups for hosts in the
> > > sub.xyz.cheese.com are not forwarded and instead passed to the
> > > nameservers responsible for that zone?
> > > 
> > =09You can't.
> > 
> > =09Mark
> 
> OK fair point - I realised that and took the step of moving to bind 8.
>  Now I'm using a global forwarders option in named.conf for requests
> outside my domain, but adding the "forwarders { }" statement to each
> of my zones to prevent forwarding for these zones, and to allow
> delegation to work.  However, suddenly nslookup will only resolve
> FQDN.  My resolv.conf contains the full search appendages needed as
> before when I was using bind 4.  So what's happened and how do I
> resolve it?
> 
=09That's usually a indication that a zone failed to load.
=09Check your logs,  BIND 8 is a lot stricter about conformance.
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