type forward instead of "type hint"

Pedro Espinoza raindoctor at gmail.com
Tue Apr 8 21:51:40 UTC 2008


On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
 > In article <ftgi6t$2oea$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 >
 >  "Pedro Espinoza" <raindoctor at gmail.com> wrote:
 >
 >
 > > I tried it; it worked like charm.
 >  >
 >
 >  How is it different from just using the global "forwarders" and "forward
 >  only" options?

 Well, this server is authoritative name server for a couple of sub
 domains. Hence, global forwarders is not option, as we often change
 the records in our domains. We just want to forward all other queries
 to forwarders, except for the domains we are authoritative.







 >
 >
 >  >
 >  >
 >  > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Pedro Espinoza
<raindoctor at gmail.com> wrote:
 >
 >
 > > > Hi,
 >  > >
 >  > >  I have the following in named.conf
 >  > >
 >  > >  zone "." {
 >  > >         type hint;
 >  > >         file "../root.ca";
 >  > >  };
 >  > >
 >  > >
 >  > >  Can the above be replaced with something like this?
 >  > >
 >  > >  zone "." {
 >  > >    type forward;
 >  > >    forwarders {10.0.0.2; 10.0.0.3; };
 >  > >    forward only;
 >  > >  };
 >  > >
 >
 >  --
 >  Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
 >  Arlington, MA
 >  *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
 >
 >


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