Re: Stub zone vs forward zone

2011-03-18 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> 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

Re: Stub zone vs forward zone

2011-03-18 Thread Hauke Lampe
On 18.03.2011 10:17, Marc Haber wrote: > Which it doesn't in the "forward" setup, it just immediately returns NXDOMAIN. Do you include zones.rfc1918 in your configuration? What SOA RR does the NXDOMAIN return? | zone "0.10.in-addr.arpa" { | type forward; | forwarders { 10.0.0.2; }; | };

Re: Stub zone vs forward zone

2011-03-18 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 01:36:10PM +0100, 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 t

Re: Stub zone vs forward zone

2011-03-18 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:16:13PM -0400, Kevin Darcy wrote: > Stub zones: only available as a single level beyond one's "authoritative > core", i.e. the stub server must be able to talk directly to one or more > authoritative servers for the zone. > Forward zones: can be daisy-chained an

Re: Stub zone vs forward zone

2011-03-14 Thread Kevin Darcy
Stub zones: only available as a single level beyond one's "authoritative core", i.e. the stub server must be able to talk directly to one or more authoritative servers for the zone. Forward zones: can be daisy-chained an arbitrary number of levels from the authoritative core (but this is not rec

Re: Stub zone vs forward zone

2011-03-14 Thread Tony Finch
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

Re: Stub zone vs forward zone

2011-03-14 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20110314104330.ga29...@torres.zugschlus.de>, Marc Haber writes: > Hi, > > I am running a local instance of bind on my notebook to spare myself > some rather annoying reconfiguration orgies that are bound to happen > when changing networks. > > On my biggest customer's network, I am t

Re: Stub zone vs forward zone

2011-03-14 Thread Jan-Piet Mens
Marc, 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, instr