On Friday 16 Jan 2009, Agnello George wrote:
> Hi
>
> i have a small query .... i am adding a forwarder to my named.conf to
> forward all request coming to domain ending with .in to 192.168.2.2
> , however i need to forward all request coming for domain123.co.in
> to 192.168.2.123
>
> this is what i have done :
>
> zone "in" IN {
> type forward;
> forward only;
> forwarders {
> 192.168.2.2 port 530;
> };
> };
What is the purpose of the above? I have not come across anyone setting
up "local" TLD servers.
> zone "domain123.co.in" {
> type forward;
> forwarders {
> 192.168.2.123;
> };
> };
>
>
> however if do a # dig domain123.co.in -----------------> it still
> does'nt forward to 192.1682.123 instead it forwards it to
> 192.1682.2
>
..in is a TLD whose SOA is one of the "root" servers in the 'Net. When a
domain is not in the DNS cache, the recursive lookups will first query
the root server for .in domain (in your case 192.168.2.2).
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Regards,
Arun Khan
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