This would only change behavior if the server has global forwarding.
If it is master for a foo.com and also has global forwarding it will use
the global forward for any delegated child domains under foo.com unless
they are also loaded locally. The forward{} turns off global forwarding
for that branch of the tree.
On May 12, 2017 9:27 AM, "Mik J via bind-users" <bind-users@lists.isc.org>
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> If my DNS is master/slave for a zone, why would I want it to use
> forwarders.
>
> In other terms why would I want
> zone "mydomain.com"
> {
> type master;
> file "zones/master/com/mydomain.com";
> allow-update { acl; };
> };
>
> Instead of (forwarders {};)
> zone "mydomain.com"
> {
> type master;
> file "zones/master/com/mydomain.com";
> allow-update { acl; };
> forwarders {};
> };
>
> Why would I want to forward requests if I'm autoritative for the zone ?
>
> Thank you for those who can hightligh this point.
>
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