Setting up Bind9 as a forwarding DNS server - Rich Infante
www.richinfante.com › 2020/02/21 › bind9-on-my-lanMar 01, 2020 · Configuring as a Forwarder. Configuration files for bind (9) are located in the /etc/bind directory. We can edit the named.conf.options file to configure our server as a forwarder. // This is the local lan acl, configure to your subnet. acl local-lan { localhost; 192.168.1.0/24; }; options { directory "/var/cache/bind"; // If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want // to talk to, you may need to fix the firewall to allow multiple // ports to talk.
Forwarding (DNS and BIND, 4th Edition)
docstore.mik.ua › orelly › networking_2ndEdIn these situations, you'll want to limit the off-site DNS traffic to the bare minimum. BIND provides a mechanism to do this: forwarders. Forwarders are also useful if you need to shunt name resolution to a particular name server. For example, if only one of the hosts on your network has Internet connectivity and you run a name server on that host, you can configure your other name servers to use it as a forwarder so that they can look up Internet domain names.
Configuring bind to only forward DNS to a specific zone ...
ungleich.ch › u › blogJul 25, 2021 · The problem: Forwarding requires recursive queries. ISC Bind allows to forward queries to another name server. However to do so, it need to be configured to allow handling recursive querying. However, if we allow recursive querying by any client, we basically create an Open DNS resolver, which can be quite dangerous. The solution
How to setup DNS Forwarding - Akadia
www.akadia.com › services › howto_forward_dnsThe DNS forwarding facility of BIND Version 8 can be used to create a large site-wide cache on a few servers, reducing traffic over links to external nameservers. It can also be used to allow queries by servers that do not have direct access to the Internet, but wish to look up exterior names anyway. Forwarding occurs only on those queries for which the server is not authoritative and does not have the answer in its cache.