Sending to another DNS

[Kevin Darcy]

Philip wrote:

> Is there something special I need to do to get DNS queries to go to
> another DNS server if a server doesn't have a record for the request
> queried.   I have setup DNS for some addresses on a local site and when
> a query is made for a site not on my server the address isn't resolved.
> Currently is someone request www.yahoo.com on our site they cannot
> resolve the address.  When I have DNS on NT, I don't see this problem.

Does your server have full access to the Internet DNS? Does it have
recursion turned on (the default) or off? Do you use forwarding?

Perhaps the easiest way to answer these and many potential followup
questions is to post your named.conf.


- Kevin