stub zones and forwarders

[Kevin Darcy]

Specifying "forwarders { }" in the stub zone definition will turn off
forwarding for that whole branch of the namespace tree, with the exception
of descendant zones of type "forward".


- Kevin

Kelly Scroggins wrote:

> I read that forward statements can cause the stub directive to NOT
> function.
>
>         "A note of caution if you're forwarding: the "stub" and
>          "forwarders" directives are essentially mutually exclusive.
> Forwarders
>          causes the name server to forward any queries which can't be
> satisfied from
>          its authoritative or cached data, which means that it ignores
> NS records
>          pointing to other zones and just forwards unresovable queries."
>
> entire document : http://www.acmebw.com/askmrdns/00040.htm
>
> Is there a workaround for this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> kelly