question about forwarding...

[Barry Margolin]

In article <fejmh5$9hr$1 at sf1.isc.org>, sid_shapiro at bio-rad.com wrote:

> Hello,
> I just ran into a forwarding problem that is beating the heck out of me 
> and my colleagues.
> 
> Our environment is "bind  8.4.5-REL" for our top-level company domain 
> (bio-rad.com) and lots of sub domains. We also have an active directory 
> domain controller as the server for the windows domain 
> (global.bio-rad.com).
> 
> Today we tried, on the bind servers, changing the global.bio-rad.com 
> domain from a slave to a forwarding entry. The slave setup worked just 
> fine. However the forwarding entry does not.

Make sure you have NS records in the bio-rad.com zone for the global 
subdomain.  Otherwise, the servers think they're authoritative for the 
entire bio-rad.com zone, and will never forward for anything in there.

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