forwarders & BIND 8.2.2-P5

[Kevin Darcy]

Try adding "forward only" to your options. The default is "forward first",
and 8.2.2-p5 doesn't seem to prime properly with "forward first" and no
hints.


- Kevin

nyaph at my-deja.com wrote:

> All,
>
> I am currently testing BIND8.2.2-P5 on the following:
>
> Master Server:  Solaris 7
> Slave(2nd-level):       Solaris 7
> Slave (3rd-level):      Linux(RH v6.0)
> workstation:    windows 95
>
> Both the slave servers have forwarders defined on them, but neither of
> them work. All I want to do is for internal queris to be resolved by
> 2nd-level or 3rd-level depending on which I am talking to and external
> queries to be sent directly to the hosts forwarder. The options in
> named.conf are shown below. I can talk to BIND (using nslookup -
> forwarder-ip-address) on the forward server from the servers, but
> forwarding from my servers through BIND just does not work i.e. nslookup
> www.altavista.com 3rd-level-slave returns:
> *** ralph.inetts.com can't find www.altavista.com: Server failed)
>
> <snip>
> options {
>     directory "/var/dns";
>     transfer-format many-answers;
>     check-names master warn; // we need to support names with
> underscores
>     forwarders { 158.43.192.1; };
>     // no also-notify
> };
> </snip>
>
> There are currently 3 zones defined: inetts.com serv.inetts.com
> img.serv.inetts.com
>
> There are also reverse zones, but these are on an ip address basis, e.g.
> 10.in-addr.arpa 155.10.in-addr.arpa 220.10.in-addr.arpa
> 0.30.in-addr.arpa
>
> There is no caching defined and no root nameservers are defined.
>
> Here is a snippet from the server run logs:
>
> datagram from [30.0.0.30].53, fd 22, len 35
> XX+/30.0.0.30/www.altavista.com/A/IN
> req: nlookup(www.altavista.com) id 11719 type=1 class=1
> req: found 'www.altavista.com' as 'com' (cname=0)
> findns: No root nameservers for class IN?
> ns_req: answer -> [30.0.0.30].53 fd=22 id=11719 size=35 rc=2
> prime_cache: priming = 0, root = 0
> sysquery: nlookup error on ?
> datagram from [30.0.0.30].53, fd 22, len 35
> XX+/30.0.0.30/www.altavista.com/A/IN
> req: nlookup(www.altavista.com) id 7008 type=1 class=1
> req: found 'www.altavista.com' as 'com' (cname=0)
> findns: No root nameservers for class IN?
> ns_req: answer -> [30.0.0.30].53 fd=22 id=7008 size=35 rc=2
> prime_cache: priming = 0, root = 0
> sysquery: nlookup error on ?
> datagram from [30.0.0.30].53, fd 22, len 31
> XX+/30.0.0.30/www.yahoo.com/A/IN
> req: nlookup(www.yahoo.com) id 12567 type=1 class=1
> req: found 'www.yahoo.com' as 'com' (cname=0)
> findns: No root nameservers for class IN?
> ns_req: answer -> [30.0.0.30].53 fd=22 id=12567 size=31 rc=2
> prime_cache: priming = 0, root = 0
> sysquery: nlookup error on ?
>
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