Forwarding will not work

[Barry Margolin]

In article <e3viu1$2b21$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Tom Schmitt" <TomSchmitt at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I use Bind 9.3.2 in our intranet and have a delegation for a foreign domain
> to a dns-server in a intranet of another company. This works well for me.
> But because there is a firewall between our companies, only accessable for
> my DNS-Server, all other DNS-Server in my company have a problem when they
> ask for a name in the foreign domain: My DNS-Server is telling them the IP
> of the authorative DNS-Server of the other comany and they can't reach him
> because of the firewall.
> 
> So the solution is simple (I thought): Instead of a delegation, I would make
> a forwarding for this zone.
> 
> I added 
> > 
> > zone "foreigndomain.othercompany.com" {
> >         type forward;
> >         forwarders { 10.1.2.3; 10.0.1.2; };
> >         forward only;
> > };
> > 
> and reloaded my config with "rndc reconfig".
> There was no errormessage in any Logfile, but when I tested the
> configuration, I recognized: There is no forwarding, it is still working as
> a delegation!
> 
> What is my mistake? Is there a magic option to activate forwarding, which I
> missed in the documentation? Or did I get the hole "forwarding"-idea wrong?

The other servers are not sending recursive queries.  Since forwarding 
is a type of recursion, it doesn't help in this case.

Instead of forwarding, make your server a slave for the foreign domain.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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