Re: Forwarding for unknown addresses
From: Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] (admin_at_nospam.WFTX.US)
Date: 09/21/04
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 15:57:42 -0500
In news:029001c4a016$39698d80$a401280a@phx.gbl,
Nathan Coraor <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote their comments
Then Kevin replied below:
> I'm having a problem with the domain DNS server not
> forwarding requests for our reverse domain to our main DNS
> servers. This server acts as a forwarder - it only knows
> about domain members that auto-update the zone, the rest
> of the requests it is supposed to forward to the
> forwarders. These forwarders know the rest of the DNS
> information for our top domain and IP block.
>
> For the Forward Lookup Zone, it forwards requests OK.
> This is because our Windows domain is a subdomain of our
> full domain name (i.e. win.whatever.com), so requests for
> somethingelse.whatever.com will be sent on to the
> forwarder. However, for the Reverse Lookup Zone, it
> doesn't forward requests that are not in the zone.
>
> Let's say the RLZ is 192.168.x.x Subnet. There's a domain
> member:
>
> foo.win.whatever.com == 192.168.5.20
>
> And some other host, that's not a domain member:
>
> bar.whatever.com == 192.168.5.21
>
> If I look up foo.win.whatever.com, the server will tell me
> 192.168.5.20. If I look up bar.whatever.com, it will tell
> me 192.168.5.21, since it forwards the non
> win.whatever.com request to a main DNS server.
>
> If I look up 192.168.5.20, the server will tell me
> foo.win.whatever.com, because it has that information in
> it's own tables. However, if I look up 192.168.5.21, it
> replies that the address does not have a name, since it
> believes it is the authoritative DNS server for
> 192.168.x.x. The desired action, however, is to forward
> this request to the true main DNS server.
>
> Is there any way to get it to forward these requests that
> it does not know, even if it considers itself
> authoritative for the zone?
You will have to delegate the reverse lookup IPs, but that is not easy nor
pretty, You probably should have used different subnets for the different
sites.
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