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Re: [LI] DNS Query

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Subject: Re: [LI] DNS Query
From: C Hanish Menon <hanish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 19:40:29 +0530
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Hi

> I have 2 DNS servers running BIND8 on linux. One for the LAN and the other
> for WAN(internet). Now the dns entry in my client points  the local DNS
> server. How will I make the local  DNS server to forward the queries to the
> WAN DNS server in turn for name translation of the machines outside our LAN.
> Will the "forwarders" option would be of any help?
> 

I may be wrong here, as I haven't done this for a long time now. But still
may be this will help.

Some where you should be having a named.your.domain.forward file (check out
/etc/named.conf I hope). An NS entry in that should most probably do the job for
you.

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Keep :-)
HanishKVC
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