Re: BIND with Forwarder

Marcin - Grupy <marcingrupy@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
> Hello,

> I've only one simple question.
> I'm using BIND 9.2.1 on Debian in my local net and it has set one forwarder
> in the options section.
> Forwarder is my second DNS in DMZ.
> Everything works fine, but sometimes my local BIND tries to go directly not
> using forwarder.
> Why does it happens?

Whnever a query is dropped it tries by itself ( unless you also
specify 'forward-only'.

BUT

9.2.1 os old. Upgrade

And

Why use forwarders at all ? There is very seldom any reason
(unless you have a very screwed network design)


> Best regards
> M.




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