Selective forwarders not working

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Thu May 13 19:23:50 UTC 2004


In article <c80dbu$ras$1 at sf1.isc.org>, sssia at cyberway.com.sg (Junice) 
wrote:

> Hi,
>    I have problem in configuring the internal DNS server to perform
> specific forwarding. Below describe the internal DNS configuration
> 
> In my internal DNS server, I have following being configured :
> 
> ....
> options {
>          ....
>          forwarders {
>              200.200.200.200;
>              201.201.201.201;
>              };
>          forward only;
>          ....
> zone "xxxxx.com" {
>      type forward;
>      forwarders { 2.2.2.2; };
>       };
> 
> 
> I have no problem with the global forwarders where I use it for
> forwarding query to Internet domain names. However , when I recently
> try to add selective forwarders to forward any query of xxxxx.com to
> be forwarded to 2.2.2.2 instead of the global forwarders
> 200.200.200.200,201.201.201.201, the selective forwarded fail to work.
> 
> Does anyone know where the problem is ? Can I override global
> forwarder with a a selective forwarder like the way I defined above ?
> I am using Bind 8.3.4.

What you tried is supposed to work, and it looks correct to me.  Have 
you checked your log?  Have you tried turning on tracing to see what 
it's doing?

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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