[Pdns-users] PDNS with no direct access to root servers

Eelco eelco at dotinga.net
Thu Apr 8 10:59:24 UTC 2021


Brian,

That helped a lot. It's working now.


Thank you

Eelco

Op 06-04-2021 om 14:20 schreef Brian Candler:
> On 06/04/2021 12:30, Eelco via Pdns-users wrote:
>> I've setup a pdns/pdns-recursor with it's own zones. The 
>> pdns/pdns-recursor is behind a firewall with no access to any 
>> root-servers.
>>
>> The pdns/pdns-recursor is working for the local zones and can forward 
>> queries to a DNS server through a firewall. But anything outside the 
>> environment is queried direct to the root-servers which I cannot reach.
>>
>> The DNS servers in front of the firewall can query everything outside 
>> the environment.
>>
>> I've tried to use forward-zones pointing to the DNS servers in front 
>> of the firewall in recursor.conf and/or an own root-hints file with 
>> only DNS servers in front of the firewall to set this up but neither 
>> works. 
>
>
> Can you show the recursor config that you tried?
>
> If the DNS servers (caches) in front of the firewall are 192.0.2.1 and 
> 192.0.2.2, then you need something like:
>
> forward-zones-recurse=.=192.0.2.1,192.0.2.2
>


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