forward subdomain of authoritative zone?

[Mike Peterson]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Kevin Darcy wrote:

>> Is there any way to add a 'type forward' zone ('forward only') for a
>> private subdomain of a zone for which my server is authoritative?.
>>
>> This is for BIND 9.4.1-P1 server using 'views' on Solaris 8 if that
>> matters.
>>
> If by "private" you mean undelegated, then no. BIND requires that the
> zone be delegated.
>
> You could, of course, delegate the zone and then be very restrictive
> about who can query names in that zone. That would work.

Thanks - I was wondering about that, so I'll give that a try.

Mike.
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