Configuring a domain slave to look up subdomain hosts

[Mike Bernhardt]

So, it seems that the stub zone only works as I expected if I disable ALL
forwarding- not just in the parent zone but also in global options. Is that
the expected behavior for a stub zone? It's not consistent with what you
said below.

 

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From: Mike Bernhardt [mailto:bernhardt at bart.gov] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 2:47 PM
To: 'Chris Buxton'
Cc: bind-users at lists.isc.org
Subject: RE: Configuring a domain slave to look up subdomain hosts

 

Forwarding was disabled for the parent zone, but it still didn't work.
That's why I asked the question. I was doing one or the other, and trying to
get rid of forwarding to the domain master. I have it on in global options
because we don't let internal name servers go to the root; they forward to
our dmz name server for internet lookups.

 

I can set up a forwarding zone on this server for the subdomain as someone
else suggested. But if a stub zone is supposed to work, we're back to my
original question. Given the information I provided in my initial question,
why isn't it working when forwarding is disabled in the parent zone?

 

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From: Chris Buxton [mailto:chris.p.buxton at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:34 AM
To: Mike Bernhardt
Cc: 'Nex6'; bind-users at lists.isc.org; 'Mark Andrews'
Subject: Re: Configuring a domain slave to look up subdomain hosts

 

On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:04 AM, Mike Bernhardt wrote:

 

Yes, you are confused :-)

 

I am simply trying to get the domain slave to make queries for hosts in the
subdomain which is hosted on other servers, instead of forwarding the
queries to the domain master. I thought a stub zone would facilitate this by
giving my server the lookup information it needed to do this. Apparently
this is not the case. Even though it receives a db file with the NS and SOA
information for the subdomain, it is ignoring it. Forwarding works. Being a
slave for the subdomain works. Stub zone doesn't work.

 

If it's supposed to "ignore" the stub zone in my configuration, what is the
value of a stub zone?

 

Disable forwarding in the parent zone or in the stub zones and it will work.
Forwarding, which is often a poor design choice, overrides stub zones.
Disable forwarding selectively or remove it from your architecture
completely.

 

Regards,

Chris Buxton

BlueCat Networks

 

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