forwarders overriding zone delegation.

[Kevin Darcy]

Check the documentation for the "zone" statement. You can use it in any
type of zone except hint.


- Kevin

Bob Vance wrote:

> Actually, I didn't read your reply carefully enough.
> I see that you said in the *delegating* zone.
>
> So, you can put a "forwarders" statement in a zone that is not
> of type "forward" ?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bob vance
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 8:00 PM
> To: blst
> Subject: RE: forwarders overriding zone delegation.
>
> >You can just turn off forwarding in the delegating zone.
>
> Right.  But you still have to keep track of the delegations and put the
> corresponding null forwarders zones into the config.
>
> Perhaps, my new "forward_delegations no" option could just auto-create
> such zones, instead of our having to manually create one every time a
> new
> delegation is created.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: marka at nominum.com [mailto:marka at nominum.com]On Behalf Of
> Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
> Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 6:27 PM
> To: bobvance at alumni.caltech.edu
> Cc: bind-users at isc.org
> Subject: Re: forwarders overriding zone delegation.
>
> >
> > 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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