conditional forwarding configuration issues

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Hello,

I currently have a Windows 2003 DNS server set up with a "." zone so that it
is authoritative for everything. I use this DNS server to resolve some
internal DNS name spaces for client computers that I do NOT want to have
access the internet. This generally works great.

Now, I want to continue to resolve these internal namespaces as I have
always done, but also be able to resolve fedex.com and ups.com. (I need the
clients that are using this DNS server to be able to get to these web
sites). I would like to use conditional forwarding to do this, so this is
what I did:

1.) Set up conditional forwarding for fedex.com and ups.com to point to a
DNS server that is configured to forward to my ISP for resolution.

Result: Would not resolve the two domains.

2) So, then I removed the "." zone

Result: Resolves everything including other internet sites that I don't want
to resolve (forwards to the internet using root hints)

3) So, I removed the root hints entries out. (It warned me about deleting
the last root hint and I said ok)

Result: Still resolves everything, but I am not sure how it is doing this (I
cleared the cache on the server).

Something in there is still using root hints to resolve sites.

4) So, I then unchecked the box in the advanced properties to allow
recursion.

Result: Couldn't resolve anything other than the zones that are on the
server.

5) So, I then decided to post this to the news group as I am almost out of
ideas...

I was thinking that I may be able to set up another DNS server that has the
"." zone it it, then set up a forwarder to it and then my conditional
forwarding should work and everthing else would return nothing, which would
solve my problem, but I really don't want to do set up another DNS server...

Can anyone tell me how I can resolve only the zones that are on the DNS
server and my conditional forwarding domains, but yet not resolve anything
else? This is my goal. (I do NOT want to manually try to keep a fedex.com
secondary zone up to date and fedex.com doesn't allow zone transfers)

thank you in advance,

Marty Peterson


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