"partial-slave server"

[Barry Margolin]

In article <DB91BC27B91BD411B598009027E59F7005577F at exchangehq.quova.com>,
Tobias Speckbacher  <tobias at quova.com> wrote:
>Hi all:
>
>I am trying to set up a slave server inside the firewall.  
>The slave is running fine.  What i want is that my slave server contains a
>db file for the internal namespace but also salve the external namespace off
>my primary nameserver.  Both namespaces are withing the same domain.  
>
>this is what i tried thus far:
>
>zone "domain.com" {
>	type slave;
>	file "db.domain.com";
>	master {primary nameserver ip;};
>};
>
>this resolved the internal namespace ok but it did not slave the external
>namespace off my primary nameserver.

You need to configure:

options {
  forwarders { primary server ip; };
  forward only;
};

This will cause it to forward any queries for names that aren't in
domain.com to the primary server.

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