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DNS Forward Lookup Zone

Good afternoon all,

 

Hope someone would be so kind to help.

We would like to retire a Windows Server providing DNS and have the FGT carrying this function going forward.

 

On the current server, there is secondary Forward Lookup Zone pointing to another Windows Server over a VPN Tunnel.

Lets say the Zone File Name is "hosting.local.dns"

And contains 2 Master Servers, 172.16.0.X etc.

 

Which then resolves all A records from hosting.local

 

Is it possible to setup a forward Lookup zone on a FGT.

 

Again, any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance. Warmest regards

James

 

 

 

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sw2090
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you can use your fortigate as DNS Server with local Zones. You might have to enable the DNS Database feature fist. btw since you do have some zone it already must be enabled. So you might just need to create an authoritative (i.e. the FGT is the master) Zone for a domain and have clients use the FGT as DNS.

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