child and forwarder

JULIEN Antoine julien at info.enserb.u-bordeaux.fr
Tue Aug 24 09:46:40 UTC 1999


Michael Voight <mvoight at cisco.com> a écrit dans le message :
37C18003.63F802DA at cisco.com...
> Because, if you specify a forwarder, ALL requests for records you don't
> have (like an A record in the subzone) go to the forwarder. This is how
> DNS was designed to work.  In the beginning, a top level server
> (something.com) would NOT have a forwarder.
> In the beginning, the top level server went to the root servers to
> resolve other zones. Now, with ISP's this has changed to reduce traffic.
>
> BIND V8 will let you selectively forward. Bing V4 doesn't.
>
> Michael Voight

thanks for your response,

    But, if my domain is xxx.yyy.com, must I create a zone with a forwarder
for "yyy.com" and "com" and "." ? Or , how can I define a zone for all other
domain outside my domain ?







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