thanks for the response! On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > Is this supposed to have something to do with either company.com or > lab.company.com? It doesn't. And is there some reason you only want > the forwarder to only handle one zone? > my bad a typo .. it is : zone "company.com." IN { type forward; forwarders { 10.100.1.24 port 53; }; ... I want any other queries that lab.company.com is not authoritative for, to go to the Name Server of company.com. ... I did try now to edit a test machine so that its resolv.conf file shows: search lab.company.com company.com nameserver 192.168.17.2 nameserver 10.100.1.24 1. I can ping, and do host <hostname> and ip address 2. nslookup <hostname> resolves .. 3. but nslookup IPaddress returns with a listing of ROOT servers: nslookup 10.100.1.24 Server: 192.168.17.2 Address: 192.168.17.2#53 Non-authoritative answer: 24.1.100.10.in-addr.arpa name = ns.company.com. Authoritative answers can be found from: . nameserver = l.root-servers.net. . nameserver = m.root-servers.net. . nameserver = a.root-servers.net. . nameserver = b.root-servers.net. . nameserver = c.root-servers.net. . nameserver = d.root-servers.net. . nameserver = e.root-servers.net. . nameserver = f.root-servers.net. . nameserver = g.root-servers.net. . nameserver = h.root-servers.net. . nameserver = i.root-servers.net. . nameserver = j.root-servers.net. . nameserver = k.root-servers.net. i think i'm almost there .. -thanks again in advance. > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- best, Vince