forward zone only

[Kevin Darcy]

Ratih wrote:

> I want to set forward zone to specific IP address.
> How do I configure this zone on the /var/named?
> What happens if I configure like this ?
>
> zone "www.ratih.com" {
>         type forward;
>         forward only;
>         forwarders { 202.158.10.71; };
>         };

What happens? Every query for "www.ratih.com" will be forwarded to
202.158.10.71, unless the answer to the query is already cached in your
nameserver. If the forwarding times out, the query will fail.

Will this fix whatever problem you're having? It's probably a band-aid
at best. Per-name forwarding is rarely, if ever, the *best* way of
fixing a name-resolution problem...


- Kevin