On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:44:27PM +0100, Matthew French wrote:
> > However, the DNS server box has a couple of upstream servers (out of my
> control)
> > in its resolv.conf so it doesn't know about company.loc . Is there a way
> of
> > resolving this apart from simply dumping the whole company.loc domain into
> > the DNS servers /etc/hosts (which wouldn't actually be that difficult, but
> > I'd prefer a more elegant solution).
>> I am not exactly sure what you are looking for, but it sounds like you want
> the DNS server to act as a DNS forwarder as well? That way the DNS server
> can resolve using itself but any non-local request will get sent to the
> forwarder.
>> Or have I missed the problem?
I thought that at first you had missed the problem but perhaps not. The
server should act as a forwarder but I don't think it is at the minute. Its
forwarders is blank yet it does resolve non-local addresses - probably
means it goes running off to the root servers or other servers it has cached.
I think I need to beat on the server's configuration a little.
Niall
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