Hi Chris,

when your vpn comes up, you need to issue:

rndc flushtree <domain>

command to the BIND 9 instance.

Ondrej
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> On 15 May 2020, at 14:16, Chris Palmer via bind-users 
> <bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote:
> 
> There is much discussion about recursion but I can't find anything that 
> matches this use case...
> 
> - In-house Bind-9.11.14 server, master for some local zones, recursion 
> enabled; not accessible from external networks
> - Two views for in-house networks
> - Intermittent VPN access from in-house network to another private network 
> that is master for DNS zone x.y.zzz; this network is not publicly reachable
> - Need queries from one of our views for x.y.zzz to be sent to the static 
> address for the x.y.zzz server that is only reachable via the VPN
> - When the VPN is not connected, need the lookup on to fail/timeout rather 
> than go through the recursion path
> - When the VPN is again connected need lookups to succeed without undue delay.
> 
> Within the required view I have tried a zone with type forward (specifying 
> forwarders and forward only), and also a zone of type static-stub (specifying 
> server-addresses). Both work fine when the VPN is up. Both have two problems 
> though when the VPN is disconnected:
>       (a) the queries are recursed and an NXDOMAIN response cached.
>       (b) When the VPN comes back up the cached NXDOMAIN is served until it 
> expires.
> 
> I have been trying to force a SERVFAIL when the specified servers for that 
> domain are unreachable, rather than recursing. And presumably that would then 
> cause the queries to quickly flow to the required servers once they are 
> reachable again. Is that possible, or is there another approach to this 
> problem?
> 
> Many thanks, Chris
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