"Barry Margolin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, blrmaani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I guess forwarding queries in root zone (.) also work. But I don't > > know if this causes any other side effects. > > > > // Recursion should be enabled before adding the block below: > > > > zone "." { > > type forward; > > forward only; > > forwarders { <your internal ips>; }; > > }; > > Isn't this equivalent to configuring forwarding in the options section?
Technically no. It will direct queries that start from the top-down, but will not direct queries to the forwarders for any other specifically defined zone. So what's the difference? Stub zones. I assume that master and slave zones would be answered directly.
