In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem comes in, in that we also allow customers to pay via > PayPal. I tried setting up a forward > zone entry -- but looking at the debug logs, it never sends a forward > request -- but instead just resolves > the wildcard entry. I'm rather confused by this behaviour, as I > thought a specific zone entry should override > the wildcard as it behaves this way even after a restart of the named > daemon, thus ensuring the entries are > not in the server cache. > > What am I misunderstanding about how these two things work? Forwarders are only used when the server needs to recurse -- it overrides the delegation records. If your server is authoritative for the root zone, and doesn't delegate paypal.com, it doesn't need to recurse, so the forwarders are ignored. -- Barry Margolin, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Arlington, MA *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
