type forward question

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Thu Aug 30 01:33:35 UTC 2001


	Just add the NS records for _msdcs.foo.com to foo.com
	and forget about the forward zone.  The empty forwarders
	clause turns off forwarding under foo.com.

	Mark

> 
> hi.  'using BIND 8.2.3 and I had a question about forward zones.  i
> searched some mails on this group but didn't find a clear answer.  For
> internal DNS i use a global forwarders option and am master for, say,
> foo.com.  I want to delegate _msdcs.foo.com (and the other win2k
> thingies) to my win2k servers.  strict delegation and/or stub zones
> aren't working 'cause of a weird issue I can get into (win2k client asks
> for SOA of a zone that doesn't really exist, BIND delegates request to
> win2k DNS changing query to type ALL, gets back stuff win2k client
> chokes on).  So i attempt forwarders but BIND doesn't seem to forward
> the requests for _msdcs.foo.com.  Is this syntax correct?  Am I not
> allowed to do this?
> 
> 
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
>         forwarders {
>                 10.10.10.3;
>         };
>         forward only;
> };
> 
> zone "." {
>         type hint;
>         file "cache";
> };
> 
> zone "foo.com" {
>         type master;
>         file "zone/foo.com";
>         forwarders { };
> };
> 
> zone "_msdcs.foo.com" {
>         type forward;
>         forward only;
>         forwarders { 10.10.10.20; };
> };
> 
> Thanks in advance for responses.
> 
> -- 
> Anthony
> 
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