If you want to force forwarding you will probably want to add the forward only; directive. By default your server will try to follow NS delegations and then forward if it can't follow them Forward only; tells it to not even bother trying to follow NS delegations.
-- -Ben Croswell On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 11:00 PM, Mark S. Turczan <mturc...@nyp.org> wrote: > Folks, > > I'm trying to understand the behavior of a single zone that I'm forwarding > queries for. > > Essentially, when I do a dig fwd.zone.net SOA the request seems to be > properly forwarded to the nameservers in the forward statement. I've > verified this with tcpdump running on my primary nameserver. > > But when I attempt to resolve a host record in fwd.zone.net it doesn't > seem to be forwarded to the proper nameservers and instead goes out to the > Internet. > > I've verified that the host record exists on the remote nameservers to > which I am forwarding by looking up the record directly from the remote > nameserver. > > This is what the forwarded zone's configuration looks like: > > // zone: fwd.zone.net > zone "fwd.zone.net" > { > type forward; > forwarders { <public ip withheld>; <public ip withheld>; }; > }; > > Am I correct in understanding that each and every query for any record in > the forwarded zone should be forwarded to the specified nameservers and not > go out to the Internet? BTW, I'm running BIND 9.3.5-P1. > > Regards, > > Mark > > > > > _______________________________________________ > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users >
_______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users