[ale] BIND and fowarding

[Benjie]

Nice Michael.  Your conf file example is a lot more clear.

On 6/29/06, Benjie <benjie.godfrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> In your /etc/named.conf, under the options statement you can specify
> forwarders.  These are the ip addresses of name servers that your
> nameserver will forward queries on to.  Don't try to add nameservers
> to the named.ca file.
>
> //
> // named.conf *what ever distro*
> //
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
>         dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
>         statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
>         forwarders {
>                            205.152.0.20;  Bellsouth
>                            192.168.1.2  ;  Somebody else
>         };
>
>         forward first;
> };
>
> Somebody please correct me if I am wrong,  its been a long time since
> I have done this.
>
> Benjie
>
>
> On 6/29/06, Allan Neal <allanneal at comcast.net> wrote:
> > I have BIND 9.3.2 installed and configured as a standard caching name server
> > with one fake zone for my internal network.
> >
> > It currently has a named.ca file generated by dig.  I would like to put one
> > other tier in the lookup process.  I would like it to consult my ISP's dns
> > servers before going to the root servers.  Is there anyway to do this?
> >
> > Allan
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