Bind not forwarding all requests

Ben Croswell ben.croswell at gmail.com
Fri Dec 7 17:10:52 UTC 2012


It is probably related to forward first versus forward only. Forward first
is default but will fall back to no forwarding if the forwarders fail.
On Dec 7, 2012 12:06 PM, "Romgo" <romgo at free.fr> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am currently running two bind9 server on Debian Squeeze.
>  1:9.7.3.dfsg-1~squeeze8
>
> Server 1 is internal dns server and serve some local zone. This server
> should forward all unknown requests to our  public DNS server. So I
> configured this server as follow :
> /etc/bind/named.conf.options
>
>   forward only;
>         forwarders {
>           ip_server_2;
>         };
>
>
> The second server is allowed to do DNS request on the internet, so there
> is no forwarder configured.
>
> The issue is that I see on my firewall that server1 is trying to do DNS
> requests on DNS ROOT server.
>
> Any idea why I do have this issue ? wrong configuration ?
>
> Regards,
>
>
>
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