Re: Forward zone giving SERVFAIL

2013-11-28 Thread Dave Warren
On 2013-11-27 19:27, Neil Aggarwal wrote: Anyone have any ideas? This is a shot in the dark, but is your server carrying a root zone or using hints? I vaguely recall running into similar a few weeks back when rolling out a new mail server, it turned out that the server was configured as a

Re: Forward zone giving SERVFAIL

2013-11-28 Thread Sten Carlsen
IIRC forward means ask the forwarder to do a recursive lookup. If the server you forward to does not do recursion, there is a problem here. I think the advice is to look at stub zones, they might be useful here. On 28/11/13 16.50, Neil Aggarwal wrote: Dave: This is a shot in the dark, but is

Forward zone giving SERVFAIL

2013-11-27 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Hello: I set up a forward zone in the internal view of my named.conf: view internal { match-clients { 127.0.0.1; }; recursion yes; allow-query-cache { any; }; zone dnsbl { type forward; forwarders {