On Jan 31, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Guillaume Gete wrote:
Now, the issue is, every request I send to an unknown, non-internal
domain takes a lot longer (about 3 to 7 seconds), while if I chose the
other server as my main server, the answer is almost immediate (no
cache issue here, I choose other domain names for each try). I think
my Xserve is getting connected to the root servers to get its info,
which I don't want.
So, my domain being (example) myzone.top, managed on my server on
10.95.1.35, I would like every other request sent to another server
with IP 10.95.1.21. How should I do this ? I tried to add a forward
statment in named.conf, with no success (and I am not sure that is
really the best way). I also added my secondary DNS address directly
in the Network System pref on the XServe, but it does not help.
Adding a forwarders statement to named.conf is the way to go here. Post
the statement you added if you are unsure of the syntax. Mine looks
like this:
