DNS forwarding: does it actually work?

[Robert Abbate]

Hello all!

I am trying to get Bind 9.2.1 to FIRST forward
incoming DNS requests
to our primary NameServer (ns1) before looking it up
in it's own
configuration (ns2). 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 {
12.34.56.78;
};
};

is there anything special that must be done on the
primary nameserver (ns1)?



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