Thanks for your replies.

That this is hard to frame is the same reason this it is hard to research online.

I know that there is some forwarder somewhere because external lookups; yahoo, google resolve fine.

BIND-chroot on RHEL 5 had the specific forwarder section in named.conf, the current one does not. It's also not on the network (ethernet) config and resolv.conf points to the localhost (chroot DNS).
I'm missing something very obvious but what is it ?

Mugo2of3.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:13 AM, Tony White via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

Of course, you can *not* use any forwarders - especially not your
ISP's servers - by just keeping your root zone file up to date ;)

Cheers,
Tony

On 12/09/2016, Okechukwu via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
> How do you know the forwarders are working?  Or might you be confusing
> questions being forwarded to authoritative servers to be forwarders in
> action?
>
> ./Ok3ch
>
> On Sep 9, 2016 09:19, "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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