On Tuesday 17 July 2007 09:20:16 Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Yes - and this: > > zone "." { > type slave; > file "slave/root.slave"; > masters { > 192.5.5.241; // F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > 192.228.79.201; // B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > 192.33.4.12; // C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > 192.112.36.4; // G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > 193.0.14.129; // K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. > }; > notify no; > }; > > prevents me from resolving hostnames in "my.domain". What I'm still > wondering though, is this an oversight or by design? I can't imagine setups > like mine are very rare. Doug?
This is natural, unless you specifically enter the zones for 192.168.8.* (forward and reverse) in your client DNS server (as slave or forward zones, see the bind manual for the latter, which I'd recommend in your case). The explanation is simple: how is (your local) bind supposed to know which server to query for those domains, as the (public internet) root name servers won't reply for them (zones always take precedence over forwarders, so if you have a zone for ".", i.e. everything, in your named.conf, your forwarder is never queried for anything), and it has no other info on 8.168.192.in-addr.arpa than to resursively look it up starting from a root name server, which won't answer but with a NXDOMAIN response. If you remove the hints, there's only a forwarder left in your configuration, which in turn is always queried, and which can also properly resolve your domains. Hope this explains stuff. -- Heiko Wundram Product & Application Development ------------------------------------- Office Germany - EXPO PARK HANNOVER Beenic Networks GmbH Mailänder Straße 2 30539 Hannover Fon +49 511 / 590 935 - 15 Fax +49 511 / 590 935 - 29 Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Beenic Networks GmbH ------------------------------------- Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hannover Geschäftsführer: Jorge Delgado Registernummer: HRB 61869 Registergericht: Amtsgericht Hannover _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"