Forwarders for one specific domain.

[Cricket Liu]

> Our site cannot contact a dns server due to routing problems.
> Fixing the routing is not an option.  However, we would like
> to resolve the machines for that site.
> 
> However, we have another DNS server available that is able to
> resolve that (external) domain.  Is it possible to set a kind
> of forwarders for this domain only?

Sure.  You can use BIND 8.2+'s conditional forwarding
feature:

zone "zone-to-forward.com" {
    type forward;
    forwarders { 10.0.0.1; };    // name server to forward to
    forward only;
};

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