DNS forwarding: does it actually work?

Robert tikvah7 at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 17 22:29:19 UTC 2004


I am trying to get Bind 9.2.1 to FIRST forward incoming DNS requests
to our primary NameServer before looking it up in it's own
configuration. Is this possible? I thought it was supposed to work
something like this, but it does not forward requests first...it looks
them up directly anyway.

under global options I have:

options {
        directory "/var/named";
        pid-file "/var/run/named/named.pid";
        transfers-in 500;
        transfer-format many-answers;
        forward first;
        forwarders {
                69.56.134.34;
                };
        };


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