stub versus forward

[Kevin Darcy]

Armin Safarians wrote:

> I can, when I setup the stub zone, after the named bounce I received the zone file with only the NS and the A record for the NS. I then try to resolve hostname.stubzone.com and my local name server does not know.
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> I can however nslookup hostname.stubzone.com nameserver.stubzone.com and this works. I am confused.
> AMS :-)

hostname.stubzone.com isn't a delegated subzone, is it?

What if you change stubzone.com to a "type forward" zone? Can you resolve hostname.stubzone.com then?

                                                                                                                    - Kevin

> Kevin Darcy wrote:
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> > Armin Safarians wrote:
> >
> > > I'm seeing a problem where the stub zone is transferred to my Nameserver and I can even do a manual zone transfer. (as a measure of testing), I can not however resolve anything in this new zone. Any ideas..
> > >
> > > I should be able to resolve any host is the zone I setup a stub for, correct.?
> >
> > Assuming you can talk to the published nameservers for the zone, yes. You should look in the stub file and see if you can resolve queries from the nameservers mentioned there.
> >
> >                                                                                                                                 - Kevin
> >