Hi,
I have a Bind (9.2.2) acting as master (10.0.1.7) for company.com.
I have a Bind (9.2.2) acting as master (10.0.2.7) for away.company.com.

I want the #1 to forward all its query for away.company.com. to #2.
I don't want #1 to be slave for away.company.com.

#1 just don't forward queries to #2 and answers NXDOMAIN.
I can manually get the answer from #2 when using
"dig -t mx @10.0.2.7 away.company.com".

Here's what I tried :

- 1 - edit company.com zone file :

$ORIGIN .
company.com.	SOA ...
...
away.company.com.	IN NS	10.0.2.7

- 2 - add away.company.com as "type=forward" in #1's named.conf

zone "company.com" {
	type		master;
	file		"pri/company.com";
};

zone "away.company.com" {
	type		forward;
	forwarders	{ 10.0.2.7; };
};

- 3 - add "forwarders { /* none */ };" in "company.com".
because I saw on archive it may help as #1 has "forward-first and
forwarders" in its main option section.

I did try -1- alone, then -2- alone, then -1- and -2-, then -2- and -3-.
In every case, I get NXDOMAIN and no errors in 10.0.2.7's log.

So...
1. can I do such a thing (aka delegate a sub-domain w/o being slave) ?
2. if yes, what do I miss ?

TIA,
	Jo