Forward vs Authoritative traffic

[Nex6|Bill]

My name server is not authoritative for it.  but i want to verify once the forward is in place the query is following the
forward and not the authoritative path.


On Nov 7, 2014, at 11:46 AM, Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

> 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?
> 
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> Barry Margolin
> Arlington, MA
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