forwarding a subdomain

[Dave Sparro]

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:56:36 -0800, Edward Buck
<ed at bashware_removeme_.net> wrote:

> If I delegate a subdomain to a nameserver, intuitively I would expect
> that nameserver to be authoritative for that subdomain regardless of
> whether the zone data is master, slave or a forward.

 The DNS would expect the same.  However, the fact that a delegation
exists doesn't make the delegated to server authoritative.  A
nameserver is authoritative only if it has data for the zone itself. 
In your situation, the nameserver is not authoritative because it has
to forward the query to another sever.

Dave