Use the "forward first " statement Bind will ask the nearest name-servers ( in the "forwarders" statement) to resolve the names. The ISP-s name server may have more resolved requests than your. If the forwarder hasn't the address your server will resolve it.
It works well by us for years. R. Idézve: Dátum: 2003/2/5 17:16:27. Feladó: "Marco Kammerer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > > > Feladó: "Marco Kammerer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Címzett:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Tárgy: woody - bind - hint or forwarders > Dátum: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 17:16:27 +0100 > > > > Hello > > is it better to use forwarders or to use hint files in the named.conf file? > > recently i uses forwarders and hintfiles like every tutorial out there > teaches you but some stupid bug in bind tells me that it bind is not able to > resolf one if the root servers and therefor the hole server dies. > > that "feature" is really great :-( > > so i found out that you either use the hintfiles or forwarders but not both > together. > > what is aour opininion? > > tell me what you use or you prefere .... > > marco > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

