Help needed in understanding DNS

[Barry Margolin]

It is not possible to answer your questions unless you tell us the *real*
domains.

In article <8d23e1$g6j$1 at newton.pacific.net.sg>,
Ben <ah_ben at cmpmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am a newbie to BIND. There are a few problems which I encountered and I
>would like to know how to troubleshoot and configure a DNS server.
>
>Scenario:
>My server is running BIND version 4.9.3. It is configured as a secondary DNS

Why are you running such an old version of BIND?  Many bugs have been fixed
since then.

>with the SOA pointing to the Primary DNS host1.domain1.edu.sg and 2 name
>server records. 1 of which is the primary DNS and the other is itself.
>However, recently, I run into the problem of not able to resolve the DNS
>query, e.g host1.domain2.edu.sg. The DNS query data resides in the primary
>DNS, but I am able to have a name resolution of www.yahoo.com because of the
>cache.dns file.
>
>Q1: Why am I not able to query host1.domain2.edu.sg? I got a name error.
>
>Q2: Is there a way to configure a forwarder, just like the feature in NT
>DNS, which will forward the DNS query to primary DNS?
>
>Q3: What are the useful tools that I can use other than debug?
>
>Q4: Any good links on reading the DNS configuration?
>
>Thanks in advance...
>
>Best regards
>Benson
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