On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Jan-Piet Mens wrote:
>
> A stub zone tells BIND to load SOA and NS records from its masters {}.
> (forwarders {} is, I belive, both useless and incorrect here.) From that
> point onwards, your BIND will use the data in the stub to recursively
> find answers to queries for that zone.
>
> The forwarder on the other hand, instructs BIND to forward all queries
> for the zone to the addresses in the forwarders {} list; the target
> server must be prepared and willing to perform recursive lookups on your
> behalf.If I understand correctly, the difference is visible if there are delegated sub-zones. For a stub zone BIND will follow the NS records to the delegated zone's authoritative servers; for a forward zone all sub-domains will use the specified recursive servers in the "forwarders" clause. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <d...@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ South Fisher, German Bight: Variable, becoming easterly 3 or 4, increasing 5 or 6. Slight or moderate. Fog banks. Moderate, occasionally very poor. _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
