[Cialug] More Fun with BIND

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:27:06PM -0500, Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> 
> Has anyone used or had any success with forward zones?
> 
> I am trying to have my own DNS at home and use DNS at work over the VPN when
> it is connected.
> Here is the excerpt from my named.conf:
> 
> zone "otherdomain.com" IN {
>         type forward;
>         forward first;
>         forwarders { 10.0.0.1; };
> };
> 
> This syntax my be screwed up from all my attempts to make it work.  Should
> it require a zone file?  Maybe there are other options I need to specify...?
> 
> In theory, as I understand it, This is supposed to redirect queries related
> to otherdomain to the name server named in the forwarders section.  This was
> a new feature from bind 8.2 up.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers.
> 
> -Nate

I don't know about the "forward first;" directive.  But I'm using
a config that looks the same, sans that line.  Also, I will usually
end the zone name in a ".", just to be paranoid.

	Jonathan Kollasch
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