Re: BIND, forwarding and firewalls (long)

[Rob Quinn <rquinn () sprint net>]

>      1.  In a firewall environment it is often the case that requests must 
>      be forwarded to different servers depending on the domain.  The BIND 
>      TODO mentions zone based forwarding but does not expand.  The model 
>      that seems to best fit is one in which a new zone type of 'forward' is 
>      implemented which forwards all requests for that zone to specified 
>      servers.

 Can't you get this effect by doing a stub zone? Assuming the site
allows you to do a zone transfer.

 I wish there was a way to ask a server to tell me every zone it's
authoritative for.

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