problem forwarding a subdomain

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Thu Oct 14 23:27:35 UTC 2004


In article <ckmj3r$1cel$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Mauricio Prates <mauricio_prates at sicredi.com.br> wrote:

> 	Hello there, I have the follow situation, one DNS Server with domain 
> "anything.com" and another DNS Server with subdomain 
> "01.0001.anything.com". I have configured the second DNS to local resolv 
> the subdomain "01.0001.anything.com" and forward the domain 
> "anything.com" to the first DNS server. This is working fine, for 
> example, from the computer "comp1.anything.com" I can resolv the name 
> "fileserver.anything.com".
> 
> 	And I have configured the first DNS server to local resolv  the domain 
> "anything.com" and forward the subdomain "01.0001.anything.com", but 
> this isn't working, for example, from "fileserver.01.0001.anything.com" 
> I can't resolv "comp1.anything.com".
> 
> 	Anyone knows wath I have to do to have this situation working ?
> 
> 	Here are part of my named.conf
> 
> FIRST DNS SERVER
> zone "01.0001.anything.com" in {
>          type forward;
>          forwarders { 10.3.4.1; };
> 
> 
> SECOND DNS SERVER
> zone "anything.com" in {
>          type forward;
>          forwarders { 172.21.12.101; 172.21.12.100; };
> 
> 
> Btw, I'm using BIND 9.2.2 and SUSE 9.0 in the both servers.

Does the zone file for anything.com on the first server include NS 
records for 01.0001.anything.com?  Forwarders are only followed when a 
subdomain is delegated out of the authoritative zone.

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