BIND problem with forwarder

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:31:05PM -0400,
 Sangoi, Nehal (Gexpro, consultant) <Nehal.Sangoi at gexpro.com> wrote 
 a message of 52 lines which said:

> They work when the IP address of the forwarder is set explicitly in
> either of the tools. [nslookup or dig]. But, the pointer to
> localhost does not work to resolve the same through forwarders line
> in /etc/named.conf file. I am still struggling to understand the
> reason behind the problem.

Do not struggle: ask BIND. It probably explained why in its log file.