forwarding zone on BIND 8.2.2-P5

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Mon May 15 22:43:21 UTC 2000


On Mon, May 15, 2000 at 03:05:02PM +0000, Toby Chappell wrote:
> I am trying to setup a forwarding zone for both forward and reverse
> records with BIND 8.2.2-P5 on Solaris 2.6. (We want the requests to be 
> forward only; we do not want to act as a secondary for the zone).
> 
> I can verify by snooping the network connection on my name server that
> the request for "A" records is being forwarded to the real name server,
> but when I try to resolve an IP address into a name I get "non-existent
> host/domain", and there is no traffic between the name server and the
> server the request should be forwarded to.

Had you made sure that the parent of the reverse domain referred to
your name server?

Had you made sure that your zone files were error-free?

It looks like it is working correctly now!

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