Configuration with faked root wildcards and forward zones

[Kevin Darcy]

Robert Fisher wrote:
>     The problem comes in, in that we also allow customers to pay via 
> PayPal.   I tried setting up a forward
> zone entry -- but looking at the debug logs, it never sends a forward 
> request -- but instead just resolves
> the wildcard entry.   I'm rather confused by this behaviour, as I 
> thought a specific zone entry should override
> the wildcard as it behaves this way even after a restart of the named 
> daemon, thus ensuring the entries are
> not in the server cache.
>
>     What am I misunderstanding about how these two things work?
>
> Below is my view.
>
> view    "external"
> {
>         match-clients           { any; };
>         match-destinations      { any; };
>
>         recursion yes;
>
>         zone "paypal.com" {
>                 type forward; forward only;
>                 // Same result whether I forward to paypal's NS records 
> or local DNS server.
>                 forwarders {
>                         66.211.168.226;
>                         66.211.168.227;
>                         216.113.188.121;
>                         216.113.188.122;
>                 };
>
>         };
>
>         zone "." {
>                 type master;
>                 file "named.redirect";
>         };
>
> };
> ----------------------------------------
>
>   
Why not just delegate paypal.com from your root zone?

                                                                      - 
Kevin