On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 12:31, William Warren wrote:
no this is not authoritative. I actually have my ecc domain hosted elsewhere..i simply clal my machines internally that to keep it simple so there are behind a nat in RFC1918 space at the house here.
Usually that means you want external and internal lookups to resolve to different addresses. The simple way to get that is to configure your local server as authoritative so your own machines using it get the local addresses, but leave the hosted server registered as the public server with the addresses the public should see.
Your server will not pass queries upstream if it is configured as master or slave for the matching zone regardless of whether or not it is registered with the root servers.