Hi Mugo,

Whether chroot or not, I believe Bind forwarding works the same whether you have public DNS or not. 

This should be configured under the options {} in your named.conf depending on your requirements.

Something like this where x.x.x.x is not necessarily a public DNS in your case. 

options {
             forwarders { x.x.x.x; x.x.x.x; }; 
};

If you are considering forwading for only certain requests, you can setup zone forwarding in your named.conf

zone "mugo.co.ke" {
                 type forward;      
                 forwarders { x.x.x.x; x.x.x.x; }; 
};




Regards,
David. 

On 9 September 2016 at 10:17, m mugo via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
Hello Skunks.

Quick query about running BIND in the chroot (jailed) environment.

In earlier versions, we used to have forwarders i.e. Pulic DNS Servers configured in named.conf

Now I have successfully set up the same in RHEL 7. Lookup works okay yet I cannot figure out how the setup is forwarding some requests.

I have no Public DNS entries in neither the ethernet conf file nor resolv.conf

Where is the forwarding happening ?

BR.

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