Reverse DNS delegation problem

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Tue Jun 29 12:07:46 UTC 2004


Chittaranjan Mandal <Chittaranjan.Mandal at iitkgp.ac.in> wrote:
> [Reply to message from "Kevin Darcy" on Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 3:59 am]

>> Do you have forwarding enabled within the part of your named.conf you
>> didn't show? Forwarding would override delegation. In order to cancel
>> forwarding for the 10.in-addr.arpa hierarchy, you'd need to add
>> "forwarders { };" to the apex zone definition.

> Thanks, your solution worked. But I would like queries that are not ser=
ved by
> my local name server to be actually forwarded to some other name server.
> How can that be done? Note that this particular nameserver is in a loca=
l subnet
> and cannot directly communicate with the external world.

Why do you want to increase your vulnerability by forwarding ? Does
it give you any beneifit ?

> -Chitta


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