Help on NXDOMAIN to try next forwarder in the list

[Ashok Agarwal]

One possible way can also be to set the number of nameservers to be looked
upon in the /etc/hosts file.

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 4.4.2.2
nameserver 4.1.2.2

Regards,
Ashok


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Steven Carr <sjcarr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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-- 
Ashok
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