Joseph S D Yao wrote:
> If you have two forwarders, as you listed, your server will try to
> forward first to one and then to the other. If it gets any answer at
> all from one - even an error answer - it will not try the other.
So forwarding works exactly the same as listing both servers in
resolv.conf? That behavior is exactly what I'm trying to avoid.
> There are many ways to try to cascade name servers and try them one at a
> time. By the good design of BIND, none of them work.
If BIND won't do the job, can you suggest another server that will? I
can't be the only one wanting to do something like this.
> On your new server:
>
> zone "." { type hint; file "root.hints"; };
> zone "private.example.com" { type forward; forward only;
> forwarders { private.domain.server.IP; }; };
>
> and put the IP address for this name server and no other in your
> /etc/resolv.conf.
Ah, that might work -- in other circumstances. I understand the basic
idea to be using separate zones to force forwarding to different servers
for different domains. Did I understand correctly?
But an unfortunate characteristic of my PRIV server is that it doesn't
use /any/ domain. It only resolves simple, unqualified names like HOST1.
This was clearly a mistake in design (from before my time), but I have
no ability to change it (in the next five years, anyway).
--
Dave Close
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