Help on NXDOMAIN to try next forwarder in the list
Sten Carlsen
stenc at s-carlsen.dk
Thu May 30 08:22:16 UTC 2013
Well you can do that.
It does not change the fact that NXDOMAIN is a DEFINITIVE answer - it
does not exist, there is no reason to look further.
On 30/05/13 9:56, Ashok Agarwal wrote:
> Sorry, its not */etc/hosts* file rather its */etc/resolv.conf*.
>
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Ashok Agarwal
> <ashokagarwal.smit at gmail.com <mailto:ashokagarwal.smit at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> One possible way can also be to set the number of nameservers to
> be looked upon in the /etc/hosts file.
>
> nameserver 8.8.8.8
> nameserver 4.4.2.2
> nameserver 4.1.2.2
>
> Regards,
> Ashok
>
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Steven Carr <sjcarr at gmail.com
> <mailto:sjcarr at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> It's not possible. NXDOMAIN is NXDOMAIN, it doesn't exist, it
> doesn't
> mean try another server to see if you get lucky next time.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 30 May 2013 08:26, sumsum 2000 <sum2hike at gmail.com
> <mailto:sum2hike at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have the following change to be available from BIND9.
> >
> > I have zone forwarders as follows with BIND9 setup with
> forward only option
> > on a Non Authoritative DNS server
> >
> > zone "mytestdomain101.com <http://mytestdomain101.com>" IN {
> > type forward;
> > forwarders {8.8.8.8;4.2.2.1;8.8.4.4};
> > forward only;
> > };
> >
> >
> > If I am doing a dig on mytestdomain101.com
> <http://mytestdomain101.com>, the first DNS server gives
> > NXDOMAIN. In this example, say it tries 8.8.8.8 and returns.
> I would want
> > the other servers 4.2.2.1 and 8.8.4.4 to be tried and then
> finally return
> > NXDOMAIN to have the same functionality as that of the SERVFAIL.
> >
> > This is not currently possible and I have tried it on
> BIND9.8.2 version.
> > Could you please suggest if there is a way to do it.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Sum2hike
> >
> >
> >
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