local dns - isp dns - forwarding?

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Andre N. <a at nottenkaemper.com> wrote:
> Hi!
> We are going to organize a little lan party in a few weeks. so we set up a 
> dhcp, webserver, some gameserver and a dns server. 
> our tld is .lanparty and sld is oldgamers. so we can access all server via 
> server1.oldgamers.lanparty, www.oldgamers.lanparty aso. everything is 
> working fine.
> but now we also got an internet connection and i would like to forward? the 
> requests to internet domains throught our dns server.

> our gateway-pc has two nics - 192.168.0.1 is, of course, our local ip. our 
> dhcp server normally assignes all pc´s with our local dns server ip. so 
> internet doesn´t really seem to work. only if i manually add an ip and our 
> isp´s dns in the network config.

> could somebody please explain what i have to change to my bind config to 
> make our dns server to forward internet domain names to our isp dns server? 
> or maybe just some links or tips what i have to look for would help me a 
> lot! :)

> thanks!

You don't have to do anything ( except remove all forwarding stuff)

As delivered bind knows about "internet roots" and when you 
configure zones ( via "zone" statement, bind will lokk there 
for information regarding that zone. Anything else will 
go via normal recursion starting with Internet root-servers.


Forwarding is just a way to obscure things, in rare cases needed.


> regards
> andre



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