Single Zone Forwarding Dilema

[Kal Feher]

First you should check that you can receive a valid response for the
intended zone from your forwarders (from your caching server) not from your
pc. It wasn't clear from your initial email that this is what you did.

yourcacheserver ~ # dig @forwarder_address A host.fwd.zone.net

Although it may seem appropriate to mask the domain you are looking up. It
does make solving your problem quite difficult. If the above test works yet
other queries fail, I would suggest providing the full result of a:

yourlocalpc ~ # dig @yourcacheserver A host.fwd.zone.net

You may also wish to provide the query logs for this query.


On 8/6/09 4:01 PM, "Matus UHLAR - fantomas" <uhlar at fantomas.sk> wrote:

> On 06.06.09 01:10, Ben Croswell wrote:
>> If you want to force forwarding you will probably want to add the forward
>> only; directive.
> 
>> By default your server will try to follow NS delegations and then forward if
>> it can't follow them
> 
> I think it's the opposite - the server will try to query the configured
> forwarders first, then to continus in usual NS resolution.
> 
>> Forward only; tells it to not even bother trying to follow NS delegations.
> 
> and thus I recomment not to use this for public zones - if the forwarders
> are unavailable or from some reason can't answer, the classic resolution
> will be used.
> 
> I guess the configured forwarders have one of these problems

-- 
Kal Feher