<div dir="ltr">Hi Brian.<div>If that's what you want to do; answer authoritatively from local zones you own and forward everything else to Corporate, then you have it correct. "forwarders {...etc" and "forward only;" go in the "options" block.</div><div><br></div><div>Since you are forwarding everything that's not local *and* disabling recursion if forwarding fails, you don't need the hint zone at all; please delete it.</div><div><br></div><div>Actually you don't need it anyway, even if you are doing recursion, as Internet root hints have been built into BIND for many years. The only reason you would need a hint zone is to define custom roots for a private network that is *completely* isolated from the Internet. Your corporate network does not meet that criterion because your corporate DNS servers will be answering names from the Internet. Therefore, lose the hint zone.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope that helps.</div><div>Greg</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 9 Dec 2024 at 21:34, Cuttler, Brian R (HEALTH) via bind-users <<a href="mailto:bind-users@lists.isc.org">bind-users@lists.isc.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg8468298891373821541">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello, looking for a sanity check.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Inside our network we are running BIND 9.18.28-0ubuntu0.22.04.1-Ubuntu on Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Currently our server serves our own zones files - A/CNAME/PTR/TXT/etc records for our domain.<br>
We have already modified the db.cache file to reference two servers provided by our corporate IT rather than using the internet root servers.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">We have numerous forwarder zones for corporate zones, both forward and reverse zones.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are looking to no longer use recursion but rely entirely on the corporate servers for anything we would normally resolve from external servers.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<pre style="vertical-align:baseline">I think all we need to do is create a forwarders stanza set “forwarder only” , similar to(but with the correct IPS)<u></u><u></u></pre>
<pre style="vertical-align:baseline"><br><span style="color:rgb(12,13,14);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> forwarders {<u></u><u></u></span></pre>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(12,13,14);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> 1.2.3.4; # External DNS<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(12,13,14);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> 1.2.3.5; # External DNS<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(12,13,14);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> forward only;</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(12,13,14)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The desire is to continue to use our own zone files, and to continue to use the already established fowarder zones, but to replace recursion managed by our own internal servers with queries to ONLY the 2 servers we are already using as
replacement root servers.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Seems so simple that I have to believe I’ve missed something.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Brian<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Brian Cuttler, System and Network Administration<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Wadsworth Center, NYS Department of Health<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Albany, NY 12201 POB 509<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="mailto:Brian.Cuttler@Health.NY.gov" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">Brian.Cuttler@Health.NY.gov</span></a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">518 486-1697</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Nova",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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