Bind not forwarding all requests

Romgo romgo at free.fr
Fri Dec 7 18:20:43 UTC 2012


Yes that was my first idea by reading the documentation.
But has my configuration is clearly using forward only, I don't understand.

Could this be a bug ?




On 7 December 2012 18:10, Ben Croswell <ben.croswell at gmail.com> wrote:

> It is probably related to forward first versus forward only. Forward first
> is default but will fall back to no forwarding if the forwarders fail.
> On Dec 7, 2012 12:06 PM, "Romgo" <romgo at free.fr> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am currently running two bind9 server on Debian Squeeze.
>>  1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze8
>>
>> Server 1 is internal dns server and serve some local zone. This server
>> should forward all unknown requests to our  public DNS server. So I
>> configured this server as follow :
>> /etc/bind/named.conf.options
>>
>>   forward only;
>>         forwarders {
>>           ip_server_2;
>>         };
>>
>>
>> The second server is allowed to do DNS request on the internet, so there
>> is no forwarder configured.
>>
>> The issue is that I see on my firewall that server1 is trying to do DNS
>> requests on DNS ROOT server.
>>
>> Any idea why I do have this issue ? wrong configuration ?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>
>>
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