Forwarding and internal foreign domain

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9o9d7k$5mf at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Brian Huntley <brian_huntley at my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>I've been asked to add a foreign-named domain NS to a local network,
>and have 2 questions regarding forwarders.
>
>we are bar.ca, with zones names such as a.bar.ca, b.bar.ca, etc. This
>new zone is to be called foo.com, so I have:
>
>zone "foo.com" {
>        type master;
>        file "static/foo.com.db";
>};
>
>The file, in turn, contains 
>
>@ IN SOA myDNS.foo.com. me.bar.ca. ( 1 14400 3600 604800 1200 )
>
>@             IN NS myDNS.foo.com.
>myDNS.foo.com IN A 192.168.1.250 ; my IP
>stuff.foo.com IN NS ns1.foo.com.
>ns1.foo.com.  IN A 192.168.2.3   ; the other nameserver
>
>
>Q1: Do I have to turn off 'forward only' in my named.conf?
>Q2: Should I include 192.168.2.3 (ns1.foo.com) in my list of
>forwarders?

Forwarding is only performed for domains that you're *not* authoritative
for.  Since you're the master server for foo.com, you won't be forwarding
anything in that domain, so you don't need to change your forwarders
settings.

The fact that the new zone is in .com rather than .ca is totally
irrelevant.  Just put all their DNS entries into foo.com.db, just like you
do for all your bar.ca zones.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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