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Stephen_Winter
Cirrus
Dec 14, 2007GTM and Microsoft DNS.
Hi, I am testing one of my GTM's on our internal network where our Primary DNS server is a Microsoft AD server. When a client asks the microsoft DNS server for a GTM balanced name, we want the the ...
JRahm
Admin
Dec 17, 2007The client is the problem here, unfortunately. Microsoft clients issue recursive queries, which will always be handled by their primary/alternate DNS server. I'm not sure if this can be turned off, but that wouldn't have been an option anyway for my clients. In our environment, we point our clients directly to the GTM and forward all non-local requests to the Microsoft DNS servers. In the GTM named configuration, I added the bold lines under the listed headers:
options {
forward only;
forwarders {
;
;
;
};
allow-query {
internal;
};
recursion yes;
};
acl internal {
/;
};Help guide the future of your DevCentral Community!
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