Forward vs Authoritative traffic

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.1182.1415388915.26362.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Nex6|Bill <n6ghost at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am going to be adding a type forward zone for an important zone.  how can i 
> test that the forward is working correctly? if i do a dig against the NS the 
> record will return no matter if its auth or fwd zone. 

If you don't have a zone file for the zone on the server, yet it returns 
the correct answer, then it must be forwarding. Where else would it get 
the answer?

-- 
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA