Re: [LUG] Bind zone forwarding

[Alex Charrett <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 27 May 2002, Simon Waters wrote:

> forwarding sucks - become a secondary for "test". 
>
> Forwarding make some sense in firewall situations for Internet
> resolution (i.e. zone "."), and "forward first" can be a good
> performance choice in some cases, but otherwise it is rarely a
> good design decision.

Yeah I pondered that approach (becoming a secondary), I'm decided on doing 
it this way becuase the nameserver that's doing the forwarding is beind a 
firewall and therefore is unable to recive notifys.

> > I've spent a fair while in the docs and don't see why this isn't working.
>
> Looks okay to me. I don't usually specify the class in the zone
> definition (i.e. drop the IN, it is optional).

Curiously, going away for a bit and dropping the IN fixed it.

Thanks,
Alex.


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