June 2017
Beginner to intermediate
742 pages
18h 29m
English
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Stub zone
Stub zone is a read-only copy of a master zone but contains only SOA records and NS records. It is not an authoritative DNS server for that zone. Stub zones are not a replacement for secondary zones, and they cannot be used for load sharing or redundancy purposes. Some think stub zones and conditional forwarder do the same thing. But it is completely different. Conditional forwarder has a list of DNS servers which can help your DNS server to resolve DNS queries for a specific domain. Once DNS server receives a query for that domain, DNS server forwards the query to the servers list in the conditional forwarder. This may or may not include all the authoritative DNS servers for the domain. Stub zone is aware of all the authoritative ...