> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:16:13PM -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote: > > As a general rule, use "type forward" zones only if you have some > > connectivity issue you need to work around, e.g. trying to resolve > > Internet names from behind a restrictive firewall.
On 18.03.11 10:15, Marc Haber wrote: > So, a "type forward" zone is the right thing to do for the reverse DNS > zones of RFC1918 networks that are reachable via a VPN link. I wouldn't say so. You need forward zone, if you: - don't know which servers provide the zone, so you need to query recursive servers - want to fall back to standard resolution if forward servers are unreachable. Otherwise stub or static-stub zones will do what you want. > However, my setup using a "type forward" zone doesn't work, and bind does > not even try querying the forwarders listed in the type forward zone > statement when I try to obtain a PTR record for an IP on these nets. do you have recursion enabled? -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, uh...@fantomas.sk ; http://www.fantomas.sk/ Warning: I wish NOT to receive e-mail advertising to this address. Varovanie: na tuto adresu chcem NEDOSTAVAT akukolvek reklamnu postu. We are but packets in the Internet of life (userfriendly.org) _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
