forwarders overriding zone delegation.
Bob Vance
bobvance at alumni.caltech.edu
Sat Sep 23 00:24:40 UTC 2000
But do you have an answer as to the reason behind
having to do so in the first place.
-------------------------------------------------
Tks | <mailto:Bob_Vance at sbm.com>
BV | <mailto:bobvance at alumni.caltech.edu>
Sr. Technical Consultant, SBM, A Gates/Arrow Co.
Vox 770-623-3430 11455 Lakefield Dr.
Fax 770-623-3429 Duluth, GA 30097-1511
=================================================
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark.Andrews at nominum.com [mailto:Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 6:27 PM
To: bobvance at alumni.caltech.edu
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: forwarders overriding zone delegation.
>
> What's the logic behind this?
>
> If we delegate a sub-domain, then we have the NS records for that
> sub-domain, right?
> So why should a global "forwarders" statement in our config override
> that
> knowledge. It seems silly to me to pass a query on to some other
server
> when we have the necessary info at hand.
>
> I know that we can override the override :) by creating a zone
> of type "forward" for each delegation, but that could be a lot of work
> if there are several delegations.
> Why isn't there just a single option that says,
> "delegations override global forwarding" ?
You can just turn off forwarding in the delegating zone.
Mark
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Tks | <mailto:Bob_Vance at sbm.com>
> BV | <mailto:bobvance at alumni.caltech.edu>
> Sr. Technical Consultant, SBM, A Gates/Arrow Co.
> Vox 770-623-3430 11455 Lakefield Dr.
> Fax 770-623-3429 Duluth, GA 30097-1511
> =================================================
>
>
>
>
>
>
--
Mark Andrews, Nominum Inc.
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET:
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
More information about the bind-users
mailing list