Forward zone giving SERVFAIL

Sten Carlsen stenc at s-carlsen.dk
Thu Nov 28 18:01:21 UTC 2013


IIRC "forward" means ask the forwarder to do a recursive lookup. If the
server you forward to does not do recursion, there is a problem here.

I think the advice is to look at stub zones, they might be useful here.

On 28/11/13 16.50, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Dave:
>
>> This is a shot in the dark, but is your server carrying a root zone or 
>> using hints? I vaguely recall running into similar a few weeks back when
> Bind complained about the pre-defined zones not being in a view when
> I added my views so I removed them.
>
> I added the following to my /var/named/named.zones file:
>
> zone "." in{
>   type hint;
>   file "named.ca";
> };
>
> include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones";
>
> I restarted named and I am still getting the SERVFAIL error.
>
> It looks like having those zones is not making a difference.
>
> Thanks,
>   Neil
>
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