Re: Help Bind 8: Restricting Name Servers Used for external Lookups

Barry Margolin wrote:

> In article <bb070r$1ha0$1@xxxxxxxxxxx>, C B <ceden@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >I am trying to setup up Bind 8 so that it will only use a specific
> >server as a name server to resolve queries that it cannot handle.  In
>
> Use "forwarders".

To elaborate a little: you need to ensure that a) your "forwarder" honors
recursion for your nameserver (otherwise the only things you'll be able to 
resolve
from it are records in zones for which it is authoritative, or non-authoritative
data which it coincidentally happens to have in its cache), and b) that you have
permission to use the "forwarder" for recursive queries (otherwise you're guilty
of stealing their nameserver resources).


- Kevin