forward zone

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> Hi, I was wanting to create a forward zone with BIND 8.2.3-REL and I have 
> read on the manual (HTML from ISC.org) to set the TYPE of the zone as 
> "forward"
> to put     "forward only"   (as needed to me)
> and a forwarders ( ip;  );     to say who is the DNS of that zone.
> 
> P.S. the zone was a 3th level zone. I have a zonename.it and it was 
> subzone.zonename.it on a different file "" .
> 
> The truth is that it was not resolving the queries. WHY?.

	Forward zone only affect where a query is forwarded to.
	It does NOT determine the decision forward the query.

	As you serve the parent domain and (I presume) have not
	delegated the "child" zone.  The parent zone knows the
	"child" zone doesn't exist so you don't forward.

	Mark

> Alberto Colosi
> IBM Global  Services
> Sistemi Informativi S.P.A.
> IT Division
> NCC GRUPPO Sistemi Informativi
> 
> 
> 
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