Caching only nameserver fails to resolve external zones periodically

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Curtis" == Curtis Rempel <curtis at telus.net> writes:

    Curtis> So, perhaps, the forwarder is not faulty at all but bind is?

NO! This must qualify as the silliest question posted here in quite
some time. Your question is a bit like asking if the syntax errors in
somebody's code are the compiler's fault. Forwarding is by definition
faulty. BIND9, the reference DNS implementation, is rarely faulty.

Please stop trying to blame everything but your forwarding DNS
configuration for your troubles. I have already explained to you why
you should get rid of this forwarding set up and why this is almost
guaranteed to be the root cause of the problem.

Oh and trim your replies. We don't need to see your tcpdump of some
DNS traffic over and over and over again.