Define an internal zone with only a couple of A records, then forward to an external dns server

[Alberto Zanon]

Hi all, 

I googled all the morning without success :( I'm using Bind 9.9.1 and i'm a newbie of Bind. This is my goal: 

- I want to define in my dns server a zone "external_partner.com", which is the domain of our partner who manages it with his dns public server "dns.external_partner.com". 
- I need to define into this zone a couple of servers ("vpn_host_1. external_partner.com ", " vpn_host_2. external_partner.com ") because we connect via vpn to our partner. 
- I want that the rest of the names, e.g. "www.external_partner.com", are resolved forwarding the requests to the dns of our partner. 

I tried this without success: 

- in "named.conf": 

zone " external_partner.com " { type master; file "master/ external_partner.com .zon"; forwarders {xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;}; }; 

and I have "recursion yes" in the options. 


- in " external_partner.com .zon" I have only the two entries: 

$TTL 300 
@ IN SOA dns.edistar.com. admin.dns.edistar.com. ( 
2013011701 ; Serial 
300 ; Refresh 
300 ; Retry every hour 
300 ; Expire after a week 
300 ) ; Minimum ttl of 1 day 

IN NS dns.edistar.com. 
TXT "vpn servers" 


vpn_host_1. external_partner.com . IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 
vpn_host_2. external_partner.com . IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 


I read about "forward first" option but is the opposite of my goal, correct? 




Thanks in advance for your responses. 


Alberto Zanon 

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