My server does not forward queries to the forwarders. HELP

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> Hello
> 
> I'm running BIND 8.2.2-P5 on a Solaris 8 box and I set up a master DNS
> server for my isolated area.

	Unless this is the patched server from Sun you should upgrade.

> 
> Now some internal users have to get some responses for an external
> area and I thought that forwarding could be the solution. So I added
> 
> zone "ext.area" in {
>         type forward;
>         forward only;
>         forwarders { 10.15.96.200; 10.15.96.200; };
> }
> 
> to my named.conf and sent SIGHUP to the daemon.
> 
> But I get a host unknown if I nslookup any host.ext.area and using
> snoop I've seen that no queries are sent to the external DNS
> 
> Am I missing something?

	Depends.  Do you server "area" as well?  A forward zone
	only affects queries that would otherwise recurse.

	Mark
> 
> Thank you very much
> 
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