DNS for my intranet

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Tue Jun 29 17:54:25 UTC 2004


In article <cbruv6$173l$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Tsakiridis Antonis <atsakir at lab.epmhs.gr> wrote:

> I have configured bind-9.2.1-16 for my intranet and I want, whenever my 
> gateway is connected to the Internet(dial-up), to use my local nameserver 
> to resolve Internet names. I guess, this means that I want my nameserver 
> to forward queries that do *NOT* correspond to my intranet to my ISP's 
> namserver. What kind of 'zone' statement should I use to do that?

The normal root hints zone should do this.  You don't need to forward to 
your ISP's nameserver, just let your nameserver work its way down from 
the root servers.  Anything that isn't in a zone that you're 
authoritative for will be looked up this way.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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