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Thanks
 John

I'm using ReHat 5.2 and BIND 8.something.  The config for this version
of BIND seems to be different than that for past versions.  I found
the DNS HOWTO to very useful.  The Linux books I have all have the
older version of BIND...

I think if you put a
zone "."
in you named.conf file and point it to the DNS root cache, you'll use
the NIC's root servers and eventaully find and cache anything your
looking for.  It seems to work for me. anyway

I'm new to Linux, so I could be completely wrong...

-Mark

Quote:>I have been using bind 4.x on solaris as well as NT servers, and using
>the forwarder directive for systems outside my net with success.  I am
>now trying to do the same thing with Linux (slackware), have added the
>forwarder (to my ISP's namservers) in the options in boot.conf.  No luck
>in finding anything outside my domain.  Is there the real simple and
>obvious that I am missing here?  Neither the Linux doc's or DNS
>Resources Directory offered any help that I could find quickly.
>Changing the resolv.conf is not really an option.

>Thanks
> John

Please don't do this.  Using the root servers for primary DNS is slow
and unnecessarily burdens these servers, impacting everyone on the
net.  Forwarding DNS requests to your ISP's nameserver will be much
faster and definitely more considerate of others.

Regards,
Jesse

Regards,
Rob

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