stub versus forward

[Barry Margolin]

In article <ab0u32$2suo$1 at isrv4.isc.org>,
Armin Safarians <armin.safarians at safeway.com> wrote:
>I tried type forward and it also did not allow me. However I can do an
>nslookup and set my server to server ip or ip1, I can then lookup stuff
>or even do a ls -d (transfer).
>
>I'm wondering if my global forwarder directive is not letting this take
>effect. The global forwarders are to our external dns. I thought local
>forwarders like such supersede the global settings.

A global forwarders directive will certainly override a stub domain, since
it overrides everything that follows NS records.  But a "type forward"
zone should override the global forwarder for that one zone.  If it's a
subdomain of one of your own domains, you need to have delegation records
in the parent domain; otherwise, the forwarding logic never kicks in.

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