redirecting root hints to fake internal root server

[WBrown at e1b.org]

From: Colin Harvey <colinedwardharvey at yahoo.com>
> My environment is firewalled from the real world.  For queries on 
> zones to which I'm not master, I want to recurse to a corporate 
> server.  nslookup some.internal.hostname.com 
> internal.corporate.server works fine.  Setting "." to use this 
> internal server in the root.hints file does not.  In fact I do not 
> even see my system trying to recurse.  (I'm looking at network 
> traffic with a sniffer.)
> 
> My root.hints:
> 
> .    600    IN    NS    internal.corporate.server.
> internal.corporate.server.    600    IN    A    192.168.1.1
> 
> 
> Alternatively I've setup a forwarding zone in named.conf to query 
> 192.168.1.1 for 'internal.hostname.com'.  When monitoring the 
> network for udp data over port 53, I'm not even seeing the query 
> being forwarded.  Why?

Add these lines to your options section:

        forward only;
        forwarders {192.168.1.1;};

see 
ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/bind9/9.9.3-P2/doc/arm/Bv9ARM.ch06.html#id2578567



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