From: Colin Harvey <colinedwardhar...@yahoo.com> > My environment is firewalled from the real world. For queries on > zones to which I'm not master, I want to recurse to a corporate > server. nslookup some.internal.hostname.com > internal.corporate.server works fine. Setting "." to use this > internal server in the root.hints file does not. In fact I do not > even see my system trying to recurse. (I'm looking at network > traffic with a sniffer.) > > My root.hints: > > . 600 IN NS internal.corporate.server. > internal.corporate.server. 600 IN A 192.168.1.1 > > > Alternatively I've setup a forwarding zone in named.conf to query > 192.168.1.1 for 'internal.hostname.com'. When monitoring the > network for udp data over port 53, I'm not even seeing the query > being forwarded. Why?
Add these lines to your options section: forward only; forwarders {192.168.1.1;}; see ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.9.3-P2/doc/arm/Bv9ARM.ch06.html#id2578567 Confidentiality Notice: This electronic message and any attachments may contain confidential or privileged information, and is intended only for the individual or entity identified above as the addressee. If you are not the addressee (or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the addressee), or if this message has been addressed to you in error, you are hereby notified that you may not copy, forward, disclose or use any part of this message or any attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail or telephone and delete this message from your system. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users