forwarders overriding zone delegation.

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Fri Sep 22 22:26:55 UTC 2000


> 
> What's the logic behind this?
> 
> If we delegate a sub-domain, then we have the NS records for that
> sub-domain, right?
> So why should a global "forwarders" statement in our config override
> that
> knowledge.  It seems silly to me to pass a query on to some other server
> when we have the necessary info at hand.
> 
> I know that we can override the override :) by creating a zone
> of type "forward" for each delegation, but that could be a lot of work
> if there are several delegations.
> Why isn't there just a single option that says,
> "delegations override global forwarding" ?

	You can just turn off forwarding in the delegating zone.

	Mark

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