zone delegation and forwarders

[Cricket Liu]

> Larson, Matt wrote:
> > You can do it in BIND 8.2.1 and later using the
> > flexible/conditional/selective forwarding features.  (Which, BTW,
> > desperately need a name that everyone agrees on.)
>
> I prefer "selective" over "conditional" for this because the latter is too
> broad: it could refer to *any* condition -- client source address (as in
the
> "Cricket" version of "views"), time of day, phase of the moon, whatever --
or
> combination of conditions whereas "selective" implies more to me that only
a
> very narrow decision is being made based on a very small, very relevant
number
> of parameters, possibly only one, e.g. the zone in which the queried name
is
> contained.
>
> Lately I've been leaning towards "per-zone forwarding" which is totally
> unambiguous.

But erroneous, unfortunately, since the queries that get forwarded
are those in the named *domain*, not zone (since BIND is doing
a substring match).  Still, you do use the zone statement to
configure it, so most people would know what you're referring to.

cricket