Authoritative NS as a proxy to a type forward zone

[Kevin Darcy]

Sunny suen wrote:

>Greetings.
>The environment is BIND 8.2.2 on Solaris 8.
>
>Would like to know if it's possible to set the authoritative NS of a
>zone to a BIND server that maintains the zone as a forward type.
>The intention is to forward the relevant queries to some hidden or
>privately addressed NS's.
>
Nope, won't work. Nameserver-to-nameserver traffic is non-recursive 
(RD=0), and non-recursive queries are never forwarded.

Just run a network-level NAT of some sort.

                                                                         
                                       - Kevin