forward zones in bind 8.2.3

SHERMAN, Larry, GCM Larry.Sherman at gcm.com
Fri May 18 16:30:23 UTC 2001


Please Help!  I'm desparte!

-----Original Message-----
From: SHERMAN, Larry, GCM [mailto:Larry.Sherman at gcm.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 12:03 PM
To: 'bind-users at isc.org'
Subject: forward zones in bind 8.2.3




I have a Solaris 5.6 server running bind 8.2.3.  The named.conf file has 2
forwarders specified in the global options section.  My domain is
"foo.com".  I have set up a lbnamed server on another box answering for the
subdomain "balance.foo.com". I created an entry in named.conf for the
subdomain:

zone "balance.foo.com" in {
	type forward;
	forward only;
	forwarders { a.b.c.d; };
	check-names warn;
}

I can point nslookup at the lbnamed server and get answers in the form of
CNAME records. It works.  I can point nslookup at my bind 8.2.3 server and
resolve everything, except anything in the balance subdomain.  A look at
named.run shows that bind is managing the balance subdomain (although the
messages look different for the root "foo.com" zone, which I presume is due
to the difference in zone type), and has not ignored the directive.  When I
snoop on port 53, I can see my nslookup session descending through the
searchlist looking for an answer.  I never see any traffic being forwarded
to a.b.c.d, the lbnamed server for balance.foo.com. 

I am somewhat confused, as I thought vers 8.2.3 and above supported this
feature.  I have searched the lists and resources available, but have not
found much in the way of help.  Do I have to go to version 9, or am I
missing something?  

Any help would be great.

Thanks,
 
Larry Sherman   -- 




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