forwarding 'almost all' queries to forwarder

[Cricket Liu]

> Can anyone help me with setting up a caching nameserver that would be
> authoritative for my internal LAN, and simply forward everything it's not
> authoritative for to a forwarder that can resolve real internet host. What
I
> need specifically is how to configure the NAMED.CONF file to serve this
> purpose. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

That's how name servers that are configured to use a forwarder behave
by default.  Just use the forwarders options substatement to designate
the forwarder, and add one or more zone statements to configure your
name server as authoritative for some zones.  For example:

options {
    directory "/var/named";
    forwarders { 10.0.0.1; };
};

zone "foo.example" {
    type master;
    file "db.foo.example";
};

cricket

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