NS record for zone with forward

[Mark.Andrews at nominum.com]

> 
> So what's the point of a forward then, to avoid going to to the root servers
> for some domains? 

	Yes.

> And why is forwarders{} valid if type master?

	Because you can have sub-zones.

	Mark
> 
> Kevin Darcy wrote:
> 
> > If a nameserver is master for a DNS zone, then it considers itself
> > knowledgeable about *everything* in that zone. It will always answer
> > queries in the zone *definitively* from its own authoritative data, and
> > not use the forwarding mechanism or NS records to go ask some other
> > server. If a nameserver is queried for a name in one of its master zones
> > and there is no entry for that name in the zone file, then it responds
> > with NXDOMAIN (authoritative "domain name does not exist"). There is no
> > "fallback" option where it will go and ask some other nameserver.
> 
> 
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