I have run into something very strange I can't figure out how to solve. I have a DNS server running RH9 and Bind 9. The problem I am having is with delegation. At a basic level the delegation is working. The problem is delegation will only work when forwarding is turned off. i.e. Bind server has domain of "company.com" it delegates "corp.company.com" to "ns.corp.company.com" If forwarding is enabled all queries for "corp.company.com" go to the forwarding servers. If forwarding is turned off, it works as expected. Below is the protion of named.conf and the zone file: named.conf: options { directory "/var/named"; forwarders{ 207.181.89.2; 207.181.89.3; 207.181.101.5; 207.181.101.4;}; allow-transfer{ 192.168.1.25; 192.168.1.100; 192.168.1.101;}; }; zone "." { type hint; file "named.ca"; }; zone "company.com"{ type slave; masters {192.168.1.25;}; file "company.com"; }; ... zone file company.com $ORIGIN . $TTL 43200 ; 12 hours company.com IN SOA ns01.company.com. dbrett.company.com. ( 2004060320 ; serial 3600 ; refresh (1 hour) 900 ; retry (15 minutes) 1209600 ; expire (2 weeks) 43200 ; minimum (12 hours) ) NS ns02.company.com. NS ns01.company.com. corp NS ns.corp $ORIGIN corp.company.com. NS A 192.168.1.100 david -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list