Internal roots and forwarding.

[Cricket Liu]

> I'm confused: why would the forwarder ever send back a list of Internet
roots
> if it's only being *selectively* forwarded to, i.e. no root queries? Even
if
> I selectively forward for a domain that doesn't exist (which I would
consider a
> configuration error), I don't get a list of Internet roots in the
> NXDOMAIN response; I get an SOA. This may pollute my cache
somewhat, but it
> doesn't interfere with the use of my internal root nameservers for
everything
> else. What am I missing?

You're missing that in this kind of setup, you typically forward by
default, and "unforward" only a small list of internal zones.

cricket

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