Configuration with faked root wildcards and forward zones

[Barry Margolin]

In article <g6q413$1qps$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Robert Fisher <robert at sitestar.net> 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?

Forwarders are only used when the server needs to recurse -- it 
overrides the delegation records.  If your server is authoritative for 
the root zone, and doesn't delegate paypal.com, it doesn't need to 
recurse, so the forwarders are ignored.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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