Firewall, split dns and the forwarders directive

[Cricket Liu]

> I'm not sure I understand what this does.
> Syntaxically, "forwarders" is not listed as an option for a master
> zone in the documentation I read on www.isc.org.

It's not documented yet.  Read the source.

> Semantically, requests for data in authoritative zones are not
> "forward"ed, so, what can be the effect of overriding the
> "forwarders"' list for one?

Requests for data in subzones isn't forwarded.

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