Countdown in NSLOOKUP

[Kevin Darcy]

Joseph S D Yao wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 04:58:54PM +0000, oscarh wrote:
> ...
> > I have a DG/UX box that's the primary nameserver for our domain (call it
> > local.com).  We have no problems resolving names/hosts in our domain.
> >
> > We are also part of a larger intranet (call it big.com) - we even use the
> > intranet's nameservers for the root domain, and have entered the nameserver
> > info in root.cache thusly:
> >
> > .                          99999999    IN   NS         server.big.com.
> > server.big.com.     99999999    IN   A           123.456.789.10
>
> In your named.conf, you should also forward to server.big.com, and set
> "forward only" mode, if - as it seems to me you are saying - you usethis as
> your only gateway to the Internet.

Minor nitpick: that "also" should be an "instead". With a stock BIND 8.2.2-p5
named, the hints file becomes useless once default forwarding is configured.


- Kevin