In message <20110314104330.ga29...@torres.zugschlus.de>, Marc Haber writes:
> Hi,
>
> I am running a local instance of bind on my notebook to spare myself
> some rather annoying reconfiguration orgies that are bound to happen
> when changing networks.
>
> On my biggest customer's network, I am trying to be able to access
> their reverse DNS, which is (don't ask) not loaded on the servers that
> my notebook is assigned via DHCP as forwarders.
>
> I have thus configured these zones locally, experimenting with
> differnt configuration types:
>
> zone "2.1.10.in-addr.arpa" {
> type stub;
> masters { 10.1.2.11; 10.1.2.45; };
> file "stub/2.1.10.in-addr.arpa";
> forwarders { };
> };
>
> zone "101.1.10.in-addr.arpa" {
> type forward;
> forwarders { 10.1.101.6; };
> forward only;
> };
>
> The stub zone works; the forward zone doesn't. When I ask my local
> bind for 6.101.1.10.in-addr.arpa (PTR), I get an immediate NXDOMAIN
> without bind even trying to talk to the actual name server.
>
> I can ping 10.1.101.6 just fine.
>
> I must admit that I haven't yet full understood the difference between
> a stub zone and a forward zone, any why i need the forwarders { } on
> the stub zone.
The empty forwarders clause turns off the enclosing/global forwarders.
> Any hints will be appreciated.
>
> Greetings
> Marc
>
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