forwarders

[Steven Sakata]

After looking more carefully at the logs, I discovered that there was a
syntactical error in my entries.  The forward-only is the Bind 4 syntax, and
it should have been:

forward only;

I made the change, and it works.

Thanks to all of you who responded with your suggestions.

Steven.


On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Steven Sakata wrote:

>
> I'm trying to set up a DNS server that does forwarding and I'm not having much
> luck.  I'm using bind 8.2.3 on a Solaris 7 box (e.g., 10.2.254.118)  I have
> added the following entry into the named.conf file (within the "options"
> section):
>
> forwarders {128.171.50.10; };
> forward-only;
>
> On, 10.2.254.118, I start up a snoop session listening for 128.171.50.10
> packets.  When, I use nslookup, I do not see any packets, and nslookup
> fails on resolving:
>
> % nslookup www.yahoo.com
> Server:  dns03.####.com
> Address:  10.2.254.118
>
> *** dns03sea.corp.cheaptickets.com can't find www.yahoo.com: Server failed
> %
>
> so I suspect that it's not even sending a query to 128.171.50.10
>
> Am I misusing the forwarders entry?
>
> Thanks, Steven.
>
>
>