[TriLUG] Re: Caching DNS quickstart - sounds like you are missing the "forwarders" option in named.conf

[Tom Bryan]

On Tuesday 16 July 2002 05:03 pm, Jon Carnes wrote:

> 3) Check your /etc/named.conf file.  In the options { } section you should
> have a subsection: forwarders { }.  
....
> If you are missing the "forwarders" subsection then your local DNS will
> *never* be able to acquire and cache new information.  It will only have
> access to local DNS file information.  This is bad.  Your DNS lookups using
> 127.0.0.1 will all time-out.

Thanks.  That fixed it.!  Time to get my BIND book back out and understand 
what my named.conf file actually says.

---Tom