Forwarding nameserver, help needed.

[Joseph S D Yao]

> I'm trying to set up a forwarding DNS server using bind 8.2. But I
> cannot get it to forward requests. ...
...
> options {
> 	directory "/var/named";
> 	forward only;
> 	forwarders{
> 		130.225.54.2;
> 	};
> };
...
> zone "74.168.192.in-addr.arpa"{
> 	type master;
> 	file "named.192.168.74";
> };
...
> named.ca is empty since I want to use forward only. ...

Supposedly, this should work as of 8.2.1, but I have not tested it; and
before that, you definitely needed at least some entries in your root
cache.  In this situation, I have tended to put the forwarder in there
as a "root".

...
> listening on [127.0.0.1].53 (lo)
> listening on [192.168.74.10].53 (eth0)

Do you have a route from "192.168.74.10" to "130.225.54.2"?  Can you
ping the latter from the former?

Is "130.225.54.2" (auaw.aua.auc.dk) the internal or external address of
your forwarder?  It appears to be the external address.

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