forwarders overriding zone delegation.

[Bob Vance]

>You can just turn off forwarding in the delegating zone.

Right.  But you still have to keep track of the delegations and put the
corresponding null forwarders zones into the config.

Perhaps, my new "forward_delegations no" option could just auto-create
such zones, instead of our having to manually create one every time a
new
delegation is created.

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From: marka at nominum.com [mailto:marka at nominum.com]On Behalf Of
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 6:27 PM
To: bobvance at alumni.caltech.edu
Cc: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: forwarders overriding zone delegation.



>
> What's the logic behind this?
>
> If we delegate a sub-domain, then we have the NS records for that
> sub-domain, right?
> So why should a global "forwarders" statement in our config override
> that
> knowledge.  It seems silly to me to pass a query on to some other
server
> when we have the necessary info at hand.
>
> I know that we can override the override :) by creating a zone
> of type "forward" for each delegation, but that could be a lot of work
> if there are several delegations.
> Why isn't there just a single option that says,
> "delegations override global forwarding" ?

	You can just turn off forwarding in the delegating zone.

	Mark

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