delegation and forwarder

[Kevin Darcy]

Kaijun Zhan wrote:

> I am trying to make a delegation of one subdomain, say, abc.mydomain.com
> from mydomain.com.
>
> The named.conf file in mydomain.com contains "forwarders".
>
> If I remove the forwarders statment, the delegation is properly
> resolved but no forwarders.
>
> If I leave "forwarders" in the config, then the delegation does not work at
> all.
>
> I need:
>
> 1. resolve everything about mydomain.com in this server (A)

Define the mydomain.com zone as "type master".

> 2. delegate anything for abc.mydomin.com to another server (B)

Add NS records to the mydomain.com zonefile, delegating to the
abc.mydomain.com subdomain. Delegation does not occur in named.conf.

> 3. forwrd everything else to another one (C)

Put "forwarders" (and probably also "forward only") in your
"options" statement.


- Kevin