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I have a bind server setup on my mac OS lion,

And I have a few domains like myproject.com point to the same server using the configurations here:

Mac Os Server, how to make bind point www.mydomain.com to the same machine bind is installed on?

I have a few windows machines in my LAN, I have setup their DNS server addresses as follows

Preferred DNS Server 192.168.2.25 << my server's IP
Alternative DNS Server 192.168.2.1 << my Router

Here is a screenshot of my windows preferences,

windows dns preferences

Everything works as expected, when I ping myproject.com from my windows machine, it resolves to 192.168.2.25

Now the problem is, the server itself is not configured to use it's own DNS, so when I ping myproject.com it resolves to 68.178.232.99 which is the actual IP address of myproject.com on Internet.

Here is a screen shot of how I have tried to setup the server to use it's own DNS server in System Preferences -> Network -> Ethernet -> Advanced -> DNS

dns server settings on mac os lion

What am I doing wrong here? Is there a way to make this server look at it's own DNS first and then look at the router's DNS when trying to resolve a domain name?

gateway.2wire.net is the default value for search domains.

Thanks, Any help is appreciated

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The best way to solve this would probably be to set your DNS server to only use localhost for DNS lookups, and configure your bind server as a forwarder to your upstream DNS server.

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  • Shouldn't this work without having to do that? – user893730 Nov 27 '11 at 05:29
  • No, it shouldn't work without that, even with windows strictly speaking it shouldn't work. You need to allow forwarding OR allow recursion, and use this server only. – Sandman4 Nov 27 '11 at 08:50
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    Nope, this is the only practical way to go. The list of DNS servers in an operating system is not a "check this first, if that fails, check that"... it's a list of servers of equal "rank" so to speak. – Per von Zweigbergk Nov 27 '11 at 17:09
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Sometimes a static hosts file entry is the way to go. Setup nsswitch to look up against local hosts file first and you should be OK.

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