Bind doesn't look up past its own Domains

[Mark Andrews]

> Hi All,
> I have seen that others have had similar issues, but I couldn't find an
> answer (or at least one I understood).   I have setup a NS1 and NS2 Bind
> (RHEL 4 RPM) and successful have them set to answer for my domain(s).
> 
>  
> 
> The problem is if I set the NS server to use itself for Outside lookups, it
> fails.   Using Dig, it will only response with a list of roots a-j then stop
> with no answers.   Is there something simple I am missing?

	My guess is that you have "recursion no;" set but as you failed
	to post your named.conf I can't be sure.  Next time please post
	your configuration.
 
> Thanks!
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