Help on NXDOMAIN to try next forwarder in the list

[Steven Carr]

It's not possible. NXDOMAIN is NXDOMAIN, it doesn't exist, it doesn't
mean try another server to see if you get lucky next time.

Steve


On 30 May 2013 08:26, sumsum 2000 <sum2hike at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have the following change to be available from BIND9.
>
> I have zone forwarders as follows with BIND9 setup with forward only option
> on a Non Authoritative DNS server
>
> zone  "mytestdomain101.com" IN  {
>         type forward;
>         forwarders {8.8.8.8;4.2.2.1;8.8.4.4};
>         forward only;
> };
>
>
> If I am doing a dig on mytestdomain101.com, the first DNS server gives
> NXDOMAIN. In this example, say it tries 8.8.8.8 and returns. I would want
> the other servers 4.2.2.1 and 8.8.4.4 to be tried and then finally return
> NXDOMAIN to have the same functionality as that of the SERVFAIL.
>
> This is not currently possible and I have tried it on BIND9.8.2  version.
> Could you please suggest if there is a way to do it.
>
> Thanks
> Sum2hike
>
>
>
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