On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:59:16PM +1100, David Gillies wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:31 +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote:
> > I seem to remember there's a line somewhere in BIND's configuration that
> > tells it to refer any queriers for uncached domains to a specific upstream
> > DNS server, rather than doing a top-down resolution exercise.
> >
> > I can't find it. Can anyone remind me where it is?
>
> man named.conf
>
> or
>
> http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man5/named.conf.5.html
>
> Look for forward and forwarders
Depending on your config/ network topo, you may want
'forward only' ('forward-only' if running bind8)
If you don't have only, then bind may try to reach
uncontactable servers if the forward server is not
available for whatever reason.
I got bitten by this one.
Matt
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