Stub zone vs forward zone

[Marc Haber]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 01:36:10PM +0100, 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.

In this case, the servers mentioned in the configuration I posted are
both authoritative for the zones that they're query for _and_ willing
to recurse for my bind if it asked them a recursive query. Which it
doesn't in the "forward" setup, it just immediately returns NXDOMAIN.

Greetings
Marc

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