zone delegation and forwarders

[Kevin Darcy]

Cricket Liu wrote:

> > 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.

Yes, "per-domain forwarding" would be more technically correct. I now lean more
towards that. (Fickle, aren't I? :-)


- Kevin