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From: "Crist J. Clark" <crist.clark@attbi.com>
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On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 01:47:06PM +1000, Sue Blake wrote:
[snip]

> Two affected (dns-forwarding-only) machines are:

[snip]

> > I cannot access the internal DNS servers, which are running NT.
> > My BIND is cache only, forwarding to the NT boxes.

My question would be, "Why is a forwarding-only nameserver ever
querying for the the root servers?" Do you have "forward only" set in
the "options" section?
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