Forward by zone...

[Chimento, Douglas]

> First, zone statements of type forward can't have "masters" substatements,
> and there's no such thing as a "master" substatement at all.

i mean to say forwarders...
sorry 

-----Original Message-----
From: Cricket Liu [mailto:cricket at menandmice.com]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:52 AM
To: Chimento, Douglas; bind-users at isc.org
Subject: RE: Forward by zone...


> suppose this...
> 
> dude.com is on server A and is the master. 
> sweet.dude.com sub-domain and can be resolved by Server B ( note 
> that server
> B is not AUTHORITATIVE for this sub-domain) 
> 
> furthermore , you configure named.conf on server A like so 
> 
> options {
> 	forwarders { blah ; };
> }
> 
> zone dude.com IN {
> 	type master;
> 	file "yourmom";
> };
> zone sweet.dude.com IN {
> 	type forward;	
> 	forward only;
> 	master { server B; };
> };

First, zone statements of type forward can't have "masters" substatements,
and there's no such thing as a "master" substatement at all.

> This doesn't work , in fact server A does not even query Server 
> B. I think I
> know why  ( deals with authoritative crap )  but I need some advice. 

Why not just put NS records in the dude.com zone delegating
sweet.dude.com to server B?

cricket

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