forwarding q'tion

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9kugta$8tr at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Allan McIntosh  <amcintosh at atreus-systems.com> wrote:
>I am having trouble getting my nameserver to forward all traffic for a
>paticular domain to a specific nameserver.
>
>I am on "office" but but want the "office" nameserver to forward any dns
>requests for the "test" domain to nameserver.test.
>
>I added a zone entry to nameserver.office :
>
>  
>zone "test" {
>        notify no;
>        type master;
>        file "named.test";
>};

Since you configured your server as a master for the domain, why do you
expect it to forward anything?  A master server gets the contents of the
domain from the file, not from another server.

If you want it to forward, use:

zone "test"
  type forward;
  forwarders { 192.168.2.100; };
};

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