BIND 8 with forwarding and sub-domains under a split-dns

[Barry Margolin]

In article <7s5eum$2phk$1 at news.okay.net>,
Christian Schneider <mail at Christian-Schneider.de> wrote:
>But since this implementation should be done under BIND 8, I cannot use the
>no-forward patch for BIND 4... and also I think that the possibility of
>'per-zone forwarding' new in BIND 8 won't solve the problem either...

Why not?  Your head-DNS-server should have:

zone "your-domain" {
  type master;
  file "your-domain.db";
  forwarders {};
}

This per-zone forwarders option override the global forwarders option for
your domain and all the subdomains of it.

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