external DNS

prashant prashant at bluebarracuda.com
Wed Dec 12 10:30:51 UTC 2007


Hi Chris,

Many thanks. It worked perfectly.

Cheers,
Prashant


Chris Buxton wrote:
> Add to your options statement in named.conf:
>
> forwarders { 212.135.1.36; };
>
> That way, when asked for anything your server doesn't already know, 
> your server will forward the query off to the ISP's server. When the 
> answer comes back, your server will cache it and forward the result 
> back to the client.
>
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> On Dec 11, 2007, at 8:22 AM, prashant wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am new to BIND and would like to have the following setup for my LAN.
>>
>> BIND is configured to resolve any request from any host in the LAN.
>>
>> And the BIND server's IP address is 192.168.1.2. All host having this
>> DNS entry resolve all the services.
>>
>> I would also like to add my ISP DNS so that anything which cannot be
>> resolved by the internal BIND DNS
>>
>> is resolved by the external DNS which is 212.135.1.36.
>>
>> Any one can help me with that.. where to add additional config to as to
>> allow this.
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Prashant
>>
>>



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