Master zone with forwarding. Yes/no .. better method

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> Hi Guys:
> We are conneted to a private vendors network. To access host files on
> their network we previously only used a forward zone type. Recently
> however performance has suffered and it was suggested that we get a
> copy of their zone file.
> This was done so I have configure the zone "example.com" as a master.
> (below)

	Configure it as a slave.

> 
> zone "example.com" IN {
>      type master;
>      file "example";
> 
>      forwarders { x.x.x.x; };
>      forward only;
> };
> 
> Q: We recognize that we may not have a complete listing of all
> machines we need to get to. Does it make sense or does it even work to
> use the forward statement to resolve these names not in the masted
> list? (as shown above)
> Is there a better solution here?
> 

	You only need a forwarders clause here if there are sub zones
	and you need to modify the forwarding policy for those sub zones.

> 
> 
> Thanks
> Derek C
> 
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