[SLUG] BIND Settings

2004-12-06 Thread Edwin Humphries 
I seem to remember there's a line somewhere in BIND's configuration that 
tells it to refer any queriers for uncached domains to a specific upstream 
DNS server, rather than doing a top-down resolution exercise.

I can't find it. Can anyone remind me where it is?
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Re: [SLUG] BIND Settings

2004-12-06 Thread David Gillies 
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:31 +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote:
 I seem to remember there's a line somewhere in BIND's configuration that 
 tells it to refer any queriers for uncached domains to a specific upstream 
 DNS server, rather than doing a top-down resolution exercise.
 
 I can't find it. Can anyone remind me where it is?

man named.conf

or

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man5/named.conf.5.html

Look for forward and forwarders

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Re: [SLUG] BIND Settings

2004-12-06 Thread mlh 
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 02:59:16PM +1100, David Gillies wrote:
 On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:31 +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote:
  I seem to remember there's a line somewhere in BIND's configuration that 
  tells it to refer any queriers for uncached domains to a specific upstream 
  DNS server, rather than doing a top-down resolution exercise.
  
  I can't find it. Can anyone remind me where it is?
 
 man named.conf
 
 or
 
 http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man5/named.conf.5.html
 
 Look for forward and forwarders

Depending on your config/ network topo, you may want
'forward only' ('forward-only' if running bind8)

If you don't have only, then bind may try to reach
uncontactable servers if the forward server is not
available for whatever reason.

I got bitten by this one.

Matt
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