Stub zone vs forward zone
Matus UHLAR - fantomas
uhlar at fantomas.sk
Fri Mar 18 14:45:30 UTC 2011
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:16:13PM -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> > As a general rule, use "type forward" zones only if you have some
> > connectivity issue you need to work around, e.g. trying to resolve
> > Internet names from behind a restrictive firewall.
On 18.03.11 10:15, Marc Haber wrote:
> So, a "type forward" zone is the right thing to do for the reverse DNS
> zones of RFC1918 networks that are reachable via a VPN link.
I wouldn't say so. You need forward zone, if you:
- don't know which servers provide the zone, so you need to query recursive
servers
- want to fall back to standard resolution if forward servers are
unreachable.
Otherwise stub or static-stub zones will do what you want.
> However, my setup using a "type forward" zone doesn't work, and bind does
> not even try querying the forwarders listed in the type forward zone
> statement when I try to obtain a PTR record for an IP on these nets.
do you have recursion enabled?
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