Question on use of Forwarders and a lame deligation

[Barry Margolin]

In article <doetp2$2061$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Comcast" <patrickdant at comcast.net> wrote:

> I am trying to create a situation where my internal DNS infrastructure can 
> do a query for a domain that is an external partner. The plan is to create 
> deligation records on the root to point to a secondary DNS server that in 
> turn has a forward to the perimeter DNS of the partner.
> The goal is to support non-recursive queries on the root, but recursive 
> queries on the forwarder. I understand that the root deligation seems lame, 
> but I am hoping that the referal will enable the client to resolve the 
> partner DNS domain via the forward.
> 
> Do you think this will work, or is there a better solution?

I don't think this will work.  When following referrals, BIND sends 
non-recursive queries, but forwarders are only used when recursion is 
requested.

So either have the delegation point directly to the partner's server, or 
make the server that you delegate to a slave of the partner's server.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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