Configuring a domain slave to look up subdomain hosts

[Chris Buxton]

On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Mike Bernhardt wrote:

> Yes, you are confused J
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> I am simply trying to get the domain slave to make queries for hosts in the subdomain which is hosted on other servers, instead of forwarding the queries to the domain master. I thought a stub zone would facilitate this by giving my server the lookup information it needed to do this. Apparently this is not the case. Even though it receives a db file with the NS and SOA information for the subdomain, it is ignoring it. Forwarding works. Being a slave for the subdomain works. Stub zone doesn’t work.
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> If it’s supposed to “ignore” the stub zone in my configuration, what is the value of a stub zone?

Disable forwarding in the parent zone or in the stub zones and it will work. Forwarding, which is often a poor design choice, overrides stub zones. Disable forwarding selectively or remove it from your architecture completely.

Regards,
Chris Buxton
BlueCat Networks

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