forward subdomain of authoritative zone?

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Aug 29 00:57:49 UTC 2007


> Mike Peterson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there any way to add a 'type forward' zone ('forward only') for a 
> > private subdomain of a zone for which my server is authoritative?.
> >
> > This is for BIND 9.4.1-P1 server using 'views' on Solaris 8 if that 
> > matters.
> >   
> If by "private" you mean undelegated, then no. BIND requires that the 
> zone be delegated.
> 
> You could, of course, delegate the zone and then be very restrictive 
> about who can query names in that zone. That would work.
> 
> - Kevin

	Or you could use a stub zone with or without forwarders.
	I would use views to seperate the client set that gets to
	see the stub zone.

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