dns question

Simon Waters Simon at wretched.demon.co.uk
Mon Jul 29 15:48:44 UTC 2002


"Frimpong, Jacob" wrote:
> 
>         forwarders { Here I put the IP Address of my ISP;};

Well if you got it wrong we'll never know.

> zone "." IN {
>         type hint;
>         file "named.ca";
> };

> My idea is to forward all unresolved named queries to our ISP. Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.

Then "." would be "type forward" not "hint". Is there a firewall
in the way, otherwise it should have gone straight to the right
servers direct I think.

Check also "forward first" and "forward only", if you have a
firewall in the way, then you may want "forward only".


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