BIND with Forwarder

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Mon Apr 5 19:04:52 UTC 2004


Marcin - Grupy <marcingrupy at poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
> Hello,

> I've only one simple question.
> I'm using BIND 9.2.1 on Debian in my local net and it has set one forwarder
> in the options section.
> Forwarder is my second DNS in DMZ.
> Everything works fine, but sometimes my local BIND tries to go directly not
> using forwarder.
> Why does it happens?

Whnever a query is dropped it tries by itself ( unless you also 
specify 'forward-only'.

BUT 

9.2.1 os old. Upgrade 

And

Why use forwarders at all ? There is very seldom any reason 
(unless you have a very screwed network design)


> Best regards
> M.




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