Firewall, split dns and the forwarders directive

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Jun 25 21:44:58 UTC 1999


In article <01JCTMLXT6RM000C41 at ACAD.DRAKE.EDU>,
George W. Miller <GM0551S at ACAD.DRAKE.EDU> wrote:
>There is a host, called charlie.drake.edu that sits out on the dmz.  My question
>is this: will the interior server forward to the exterior server a question 
>about charlie.drake.edu, even though it has the same domain name as the 
>interior network?  Thus far, the only way I can get resolution for queries 
>concerning charlie is if I place an entry in the interior server host file.

If a server is authoritative (master or slave) for a zone then it never
forwards queries for a name in that zone.

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