Re: Forward zone giving SERVFAIL

2013-11-28 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <000701ceebe9$cf91f6c0$6eb5e440$@JAMMConsulting.com>, "Neil Aggarwal" writes: > 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; >

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, bu

RE: Forward zone giving SERVFAIL

2013-11-28 Thread Neil Aggarwal
Dave: > 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 Bind complained about the pre-defined zones not being in a view when I added my views so I removed them. I added the following to my /var/nam

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 ro

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 {