Delegation and Forwarding

[Ben Croswell]

The basic answer is that you use null forwarders for any domains that you
want to turn off the global forwarders.
If you have a global forwarder and then you have bob.com with a null
forwarder, bob.com and the domains below is will follow delegation.
On Dec 11, 2013 7:10 AM, "Bob McDonald" <bmcdonaldjr at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm a bit confused on the need for a blank forwarders statement inside of
> a zone statement in the named.conf file.  Given an internal zone on a
> recursive server with global forwarders, what are the situations which
> would require me to code a blank forwarders statement inside of a zone
> statement in a named.conf?  I have internal zones which 1) do not delegate
> children, 2) delegate children on the same server, and delegate children on
> different servers (and different versions of bind).  I know that delegation
> is not affected on servers without global forwarders.  The documentation
> around this is not clear (at least to me <grin>).
>
> Is there a difference if the parent is local and the child is forwarded?
>  (or both forwarded but to different addresses?)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>
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