My first DNS server

[Daniel O'Connor]

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On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:22, Joshua Lewis wrote:
> I am setting up BIND9 (My first Unix DNS server) and was setting up the
> forwarders section of the namedb.conf. I was wondering if I should leave
> the default 127.0.0.1 in the list or if I should remove it. I am assuming
> I should remove it as if it needs to forward a request then it obviously
> doesn't have the answer.

Here's the config for a bind that will respond to DNS requests from other machine.

options {
        directory "/etc/namedb";
};

zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "named.root";
};

zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA" {
        type master;
        file "localhost.rev";
};

If you have an upstream DNS server you can tell BIND about it by putting
the following inside the options section ->
        forwarders {
                1.2.3.4;
        };

Hope that helps.

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