Forwarding "all-other" zones

[Barry Margolin]

In article <24513.931295601 at joshua>, Jim Ault  <aultj at joshua.crd.ge.com> wrote:
>
>Let's say I have an authoritative server for xyz.com domain, and that
>server can and should query other servers in other divisions of the
>xyz.com domain, but when the server wants to query other hosts outside the
>company, like aol.com, or blah.net, or blah.ac.uk, I want the bind server
>to forward those requests only to a forwarding server, but I DONT want to
>have to enumerate all the .net, .org, and country domains, and all the
>rest of the .com domain to specify a forward-only zone...  
>
>I essentially want "forward last" instead of forward only, or forward
>first.  What options and flags should I use to do this in named.conf?

You should configure all the other XXX.xyz.com zones as type forward zones
pointing to the appropriate internal servers, and then use forwarders in
the options statement to specify the outside forwarding server.

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