Stub zone vs forward zone

[Tony Finch]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Jan-Piet Mens wrote:
>
> 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.

If I understand correctly, the difference is visible if there are
delegated sub-zones. For a stub zone BIND will follow the NS records to
the delegated zone's authoritative servers; for a forward zone all
sub-domains will use the specified recursive servers in the "forwarders"
clause.

Tony.
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