Can internal root server also forward?

[joeunc]

Well what we have is that it is a seperate company outside the
firewall that is kind of "merged" in with existing company.
Company A wants to resolve internal hosts on Company B. The forwarding
was hoping to not have to open all the firewalls between the two for
the delegation from root to happen via NS records.
We are thinking of putting in a forwarder box and delegating at
internal root to that forwarder and then running forward only caching
on the forwarder over to the "other" company.

thanks
Joe



On Aug 25, 11:34 pm, Mark Andrews <Mark_Andr... at isc.org> wrote:
> > Have an internal root server with zone db.root.
> > Forwarding is not turned on as global option. Tried to add two forward
> > zones with forward only into the root server and it would never
> > forward. NXDOMAIN on localhost digs for that forward zone. If the zone
> > is delegated in the the db.root file with NS  records it works
> > obviusly, The internal root server is running BIND 9.2.2.
>
> > Are there limitations on a root server having forward only zones?
>
> > thanks
> > Joe
>
>         The real question is why did you decide to use forward
>         zones rather than using a normal delegation.
>
>         Forward zones are there for when you need to do something
>         special.  They are not a replacement for doing normal
>         delegations.
>
>         Mark
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