Forwarders and delegations

[Genesiscom reese]

No, the server with the forwarder statement will only
answer queries for zones he is authoritative for. Everything
else is going to the forwarder.

The server will *only* use the forwarders. Delegation
to another server is
not working together with forwarders without additional
configuration. You have to use the "noforward" statement for
the delegated zone to make work this config.

Regards,
Juerg


-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org]On
Behalf Of kpchalla at hss.hns.com
Sent: Monday, 15. May 2000 16:17
To: Alec.Barea at sita.int
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: Forwarders and delegations




The server will first look at the delegated zone if your query has a pointer
to
that zone. Next it will query the forwarder.
i.e., if you have delegated a zone called *xyz.abc.com* to a server,and your
query is  *hostname.xyz.abc.com*, you will go to the delegated zones server.

But if you simply give a query for *hostname* then it all depends on the
search
list of your client from where the query is being made. If the search list
has
the delegated domain's name it will go to the delegated zone's server.

Regards,
Kali.




Alec.Barea at sita.int on 05/15/2000 08:31:59 PM

To:   bind-users at isc.org
cc:    (bcc: Kali P Challa/HSS)
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Subject:  Forwarders and delegations







Hi there,

One thing i would like to clarify : When does bind start to use the
"forwarders"
option? According to the documentation it's used when the server cannot find
a
response. What does that mean?
Lets take a practical exemple:
- 1 server configured with the "forwarders" option
- on this server a zone file with a delegation to another server

If you ask the server for something in the delegated zone, will the server
first
ask the delegated server or the forwarders?

Alec Barea
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