Caching only server

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Sun Jan 29 07:56:37 UTC 2006


> In article <drhfe0$199c$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>  "Mokwena Motseto" <Mokwena.Motseto at postoffice.co.za> wrote:
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I need to change my DNS server to forward all the requests to other DNS
> > servers
> > 
> > I have changed the named.conf file to the one below, is there anything
> > that I might have overlooked
> 
> In older versions of BIND it was still necessary to have a hint zone 
> even when forwarding everything, but I think that was fixed a while ago.

	He is still using "forward first;" (default) which requires the
	hints.
 
> So I think your configuration should work.  What's the problem you're 
> having?
> 
> > 
> > This is what my named.conf file looks like
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > // generated by named-bootconf.pl
> > 
> > options {
> > 	directory "/etc/named.data";
> > 	forwarders {
> > 		10.3.64.51;
> > 		10.3.64.52;
> > 		10.3.64.73;
> > 	};
> > };
> > 
> > 
> > zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
> > 	type master;
> > 	file "named.local";
> > };
> > 
> > #zone "." {
> > #	type hint;
> > #	file "named.cache";
> > #};
> 
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> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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