Forwarding a subzone of a master zone

[Olivier Cherrier]

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 01:37:23AM -0700, chris.p.buxton at gmail.com wrote:
> You're getting a bit confused, because your configuration is complex. Some of your observations are in contradiction with your disabling of recursion, so I believe you are partially mistaken.
> 
> - You're mixing authoritative and recursive service in one config. This often leads to confusion.
> - Your recursion algorithm must be able to track down a particular domain while not being able to resolve from the Internet root.
> 
> Rather than turning off recursion, why not just set up your own root zone (type master)? That way, your server can recurse to sub.example.com based on the delegation, while returning immediate negative answers for anything unknown. Just make sure you delegate example.com (and all other zones) from your private root zone.
> 
> A forwarders list in example.com or a zone of type forward named sub.example.com will not have any effect so long as recursion is disabled. Forwarding is a configuration aspect of the recursion algorithm.
 

	Hi Chris,

Thank you very much for the clarification.

With your help and this message
http://fixunix.com/dns/549124-re-disable-root-hints.html
(from you too ;-), I get it working now!

Thanks,
Have a nice day.

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Olivier Cherrier - Symacx.com
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