Queries regarding forwarders

[Matus UHLAR - fantomas]

On 08.08.18 19:32, Blason R wrote:
>I am bit confused about DNS forwarders. I have two BIND Servers one is
>being used as Authoritative DNS server which has forwarder set

why?

> to other
>server like this
>
>Auth Server  for xvyz.com 192.168.3.15
>Recursive Server 192.168.3.44
>
>Now if I am debugging from client side using -debug option I see
>192.168.3.15 is directly resolving with ROOT DNS Servers though I have
>recursive no; option set in my BIND config.

BIND has internal list of root servers.

> Ideally the query should have
>gone to 192.168.3.44 but in debug I am seeing the below output.

ideally you would not use forwarder on BIND, unless you really must.


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