Forwarding "all-other" zones

[Cricket Liu]

Jim Ault <aultj at joshua.crd.ge.com> wrote in message
news:<24513.931295601 at joshua>...
> 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?

options {
    forwarder { 192.168.1.1; };
    forward only;
};

zone "xyz.com" {
    type forward;
    forwarders {};
};

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