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<div style="RIGHT: auto">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.)</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">My root.hints:</div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto">.<SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=tab> 600<SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=tab> IN<SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=tab> NS<SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=tab> internal.corporate.server.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></div>
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<div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent; FONT-STYLE: normal; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-SIZE: 16px; RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=tab><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=tab><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=tab><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=tab><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=tab><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=tab><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=tab><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" class=tab>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?</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></div>
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