recursive service and forward

[Kevin Darcy]

Michael wrote:

>>At 05:34 PM 6/26/2004, Michael wrote:
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>>> I've stared at the
>>>code for a long time but can't find where the decision is made to treat
>>>the zone as non-authoritative.
>>>      
>>>
>>It's non-authorative if it has to get the answer to the question from 
>>elsewhere.
>>It's authorative if it serves up the domain itself. Fetching data out of 
>>cache is
>>non-authorative data since it got into cache in the first place by querying
>>another server and caching the answers (including negative ones).
>>
>>Danny
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>Sure, I know that. What I'm trying to do is use BIND to front end another 
>process that has all the necessary data. It would just be an easy way to 
>serve that data. Since bind has all the capability to do this function, 
>all that is necessary is to flip the AA bit.
>
BIND doesn't offer any way to simply "flip" the bit, since that would 
constitute lying, and lying almost invariably leads to breakage. What 
you're trying to do basically goes against the grain of a nameserver's 
role. I think if you want to continue to use BIND to basically 
"frontend" your other processes, then you need to look at the SDB stuff.

- Kevin