forwarders

[Barry Margolin]

In article <86phu3$mvn$1 at proxy2.fe.internet.bosch.de>,
Arulmozhi Sengodan  <Arulmozhi.Sengodan at us.bosch.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Has anyone ever tried to get forwarders to work in BIND on UNIX?  I've got a
>server that flat out refuses to forward....  It's BIND 8.1.2.  The options
>entry looks like this:
>
>options {
> directory "/etc/named";
> forwarders {
>  172.16.1.14;
> };
>};

Do you have a hints file for zone "."?  Prior to BIND 8.2, it won't forward
if it doesn't have a valid root server list (even though it doesn't need
root servers if it's forwarding).

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