<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><span>Hi all,<br><br>I googled all the morning without success :( I'm using Bind 9.9.1 and i'm a newbie of Bind. This is my goal:<br><br>- I want to define in my dns server a zone "external_partner.com", which is the domain of our partner who manages it with his dns public server "dns.external_partner.com".<br>- I need to define into this zone a couple of servers ("vpn_host_1.</span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">external_partner.com</span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">", "</span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">vpn_host_2.</span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">external_partner.com</span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">") because we connect via vpn to our partner.<br>- I want that the rest of the names, e.g. "www.external_partner.com", are resolved forwarding the requests to the dns of our partner.<br><br></span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">I tried this without success:<br><br>- in "named.conf":<br><br>zone "</span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">external_partner.com</span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">" { type master; file "master/</span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">external_partner.com</span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">.zon"; forwarders {xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx;}; };<br><br>and I have "recursion yes" in the options.<br><br><br>- in "</span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">external_partner.com</span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">.zon" I have only the two entries:<br><br>$TTL 300<br>@ IN SOA dns.edistar.com. admin.dns.edistar.com. (<br> 2013011701 ; Serial<br> 300 ; Refresh<br> 300 ; Retry every hour<br> 300 ; Expire after a week<br> 300 ) ; Minimum ttl of 1 day<br><br> IN NS dns.edistar.com.<br> TXT "vpn servers"<br><br><br></span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">vpn_host_1.</span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">external_partner.com</span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b"></span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">. IN A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx<br></span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">vpn_host_2.</span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">external_partner.com</span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b"></span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">. IN A </span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b">xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</span><br><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b"><br></span><span id="22df5ef7-feb8-4fdf-be66-0c1f76da8c4b"><br>I read about "forward first" option but is the opposite of my goal, correct?<br><br><br><br><br>Thanks in advance for your responses.<br><br><br><span name="x"></span>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 15px;">Alberto Zanon </span>
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