As a followup - AWS doesn't allow forwarders / recursion. They disable it.
The work around I have used it creating a example.com file in /etc/resolvers/ directory. The file basically specifies the dns server to use when trying to resolve the example.com domain. -- gs On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Lonnie Olson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Grant Shipley <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Jonathan Grotegut <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > >> Only use one DNS server? > >> > > > > Yeah, but then I would have to setup forwarding. It will work I suppose > > but I really want OSX to work the correct way. > > So just enable forwarders in your DNS server. That's easy. > > I don't see why you want to have a DNS server that does not function > properly, and spend hours trying to hack your OS to deal with it's > problems. Spend 5 min, and fix your DNS server. > > If your DNS server is expected to resolve all names on the internet it > needs to have forwarders, or recursion enabled. If you only intend it > to resolve authoritative domains only, you should not use it for > client resolution. > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
