internal and external DNS servers: no addrs found for root NS ()

[Kevin Darcy]

If you want to forward all unknown names externally, why do you even need or want an internal root? You can't reasonably mix internal-root and global forwarding on the same nameserver.

                                                                                                                - Kevin

Blake Sanders wrote:

>  First, I would like to say hello, and I hope everyone is fine.
> Second, my question:
>
> I setup a primary (root) and secondary internal BIND servers running on Solaris 2.7.  Everything was running great until I decided I needed them to answer requests for external hosts.  From your experiences, what would be the best way to setup up my internal DNS servers, to query a primary and secondary DNS server provided by our ISP (the ISP is currently hosting our external DNS)?
>
> I tried adding forwarders to my conf file, however I started receiving messages because it cannot find addresses for the root servers.
>
> >From what I understand, when named starts, it will query the forwarders for the root servers addr first, and since the external NS do not exist in my root.ca file, I receive these messages:
>
> /var/adm/messages
>
> sysquery: no addrs found for root NS ()
>
> I guess you can see where Im going with this.  Maybe a little nudge in the right direction will help me figure out the rest.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Blake Sanders    blake06 at earthlink.net