BIND forwarding

[whitejm3]

I'm running BIND on RH 5, as an internal DNS server. I can't seem to get forwarding to work. I want to have the internal DNS as the primary DNS server to provide ip information on my stuff inside my forewall and forward external requests to my ISP's DNS server. Can anyone point me in the right direction to find the answer?

Thanks,
John

[chrism01]

Have a look at the HOWTOs at www.tldp.org (The Linux Doc Proj). You'll need to search for IP-Masquerading/forwarding.

[bwkaz]

Actually, IP masquerading and IP forwarding are not what you want. ;)

You want DNS forwarding, so look at the DNS-HOWTO at TLDP instead. Most of the time, you don't have to do anything other than set up a root hints file -- the DNS server will look up the names on its own. But if you really want to forward, there are options for BIND 9 to let you do that (I don't know about earlier versions).