selective forwarding ?

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Mon Mar 13 16:13:46 UTC 2000


In article <00Mar13.145936jst.130897 at tkfwbw1.clj.co.jp>,
Rahul Parasnis  <rparasnis at clj.co.jp> wrote:
>Thanks a lot , 
>
>That was very informative. 
>How could I possibly  do the Following 
>
>For selective zones I would like to forward the Query to Root Server.  

If you want to use the root servers, you don't want to forward.  You should
specify "forwarders {}" for those domains.

>
>And for the Rest ( internet)  I transfer the query to another forwarder  
>which is running on firewall. 

Put "forwarders { firewall address; }" in those zone statements.

>
>my primary server is jp.domain 
>
>so upper level is .domain 
>
>zone ".domain" {
>	type forward;
>	forward only;
>	forwarders { root servers address ; } 
>};
>
>or I have to write *.domain infront of zone  

It should just be:

zone "domain" {
  type forward;
  forwarders {};
};

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