Forward vs Authoritative traffic

Fri Nov 7 21:04:32 UTC 2014

On Nov 7, 2014, at 11:35 AM, Nex6|Bill <n6ghost at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> I am going to be adding a type forward zone for an important zone.  how can i test that the forward is working correctly? if i do a dig against the NS the record will return no matter if its auth or fwd zone. 

Will your server be receiving recursive or iterative queries (rd=1 or rd=0) for the zone? Forwarding zones like this don't work for iterative queries.

Chris