DNS forwarding

[Danny Mayer]

pn.lu at gmx.net wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> I am new here. I works as network security administrator and not an English
> native speaker. 
> At office and home I can access the coperate network. But a mail program
> (such as mozilla mail) does not work, neither at home nor at office.
> Therefore I have newly installed BIND 9.2.4 on my linux (SuSE9.2) box and
> written the following lines in the /etc/named.conf.  
> <snip>
> zone "gmx.net" in {
>         type forward;
>         forwarders { 213.165.64.1; 192.112.36.4; 195.20.224.97; };
> };
> <snap>
> The first forwarder ist the nameserver of the ISP gmx. But it doesn't help
> me further.
> How can forward the DNS requests right?
> Thank you in advance!
> peter ludwig
> 
Why do you want to forward? For that matter what are your firewall 
settings. Did you open a 53/UDP and 53/TCP hole to let your packets out?

Danny

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