let master DNS act as forwarder

[Kevin Darcy]

Yes, you can forward queries, as long as you have a machine willing to act as
your forwarder. Don't worry about the master zones -- the nameserver won't
forward queries in any zone for which it is authoritative.


- Kevin

Jangalwa, Raj wrote:

> Hi Gurus,
>
> I am not sure what I need to do to resolve our crises here. Our internet
> link from external DNS is been up and down quite often with the grace of our
> almighty bell-atlantic. My DNS has an address of 64.x.x.x and our link of
> 64.x.x.x is always down. I also have another link on 166.x.x.x network, but
> my DNS is not configured for that network.
>
> What I wanna know is there some way that I can route my all the traffic from
> DNS to other link (166.x.x.x). Do I have to configure something on my DNS to
> send the traffic via 166.x.x.x router (I can NAT my DNS to 166 address).
>
> Or can I just tell my DNS to act as a forwarder and forward all the traffic
> that it gets to another DNS in 166 address??? although my DNS is master for
> some of the zones.
>