Delegation of Authority

[Joel]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:08:01PM +0000,
>  Joel <jc517 at wmi.com> wrote
>  a message of 27 lines which said:
> 
> > I'm authoritative for wmi.com but not lpx.wmi.com. I want to
> > delegate that to another machine. I could not get it to work until I
> > added the empty forwarders declaration.
> 
> Strange. The delegation was probably broken in some way and the
> forwarder was unable to reach the name servers of the delegated
> zone. RFC 1918 addresses? IP filtering?

RFC1918 - yes.
IP filtering - no.

> > I was snooping packets and anytime I'd look up something in the
> > lpx.wmi.com subdomain it was sent to the forwarder.

> Which seems perfectly sensible. Any request for which your name server
> is not authoritative for is sent to the forwarder. 

But I told it where to go to lookup lpx.wmi.com. I guess this gets back
to the broken delegation.