Stub zone vs forward zone

[Jan-Piet Mens]

Marc,

A stub zone tells BIND to load SOA and NS records from its masters {}.
(forwarders {} is, I belive, both useless and incorrect here.) From that
point onwards, your BIND will use the data in the stub to recursively
find answers to queries for that zone.

The forwarder on the other hand, instructs BIND to forward all queries
for the zone to the addresses in the forwarders {} list; the target
server must be prepared and willing to perform recursive lookups on your
behalf.

        -JP