diff --git a/doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml b/doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml index 630e6127c4..4434501186 100644 --- a/doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml +++ b/doc/arm/Bv9ARM-book.xml @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ - + @@ -3866,18 +3866,32 @@ behave very slowly if you put 100K files into a single directory.)A stub zone is similar to a slave zone, except that it replicates only the NS records of a master zone instead of the entire zone. Stub zones are not a standard part of the DNS; -they are a peculiarity of BIND 4 and BIND 8 that relies heavily -on the particular way the zone data is structured in those servers. -BIND 9 attempts to emulate the BIND 4/8 stub zone feature for backwards compatibility, -but we do not recommend its use in new configurations.In -BIND 4/8, zone transfers of a parent zone included the NS records -from stub children of that zone. This meant that, in some cases, -users could get away with configuring child stubs only in the master -server for the parent zone. BIND 9 never mixes together zone data -from different zones in this way. Therefore, if a BIND 9 master -serving a parent zone has child stub zones configured, all the slave -servers for the parent zone also need to have the same child stub -zones configured. +they are a feature specific to the BIND implementation. + + +Stub zones can be used to eliminate the need for glue NS record +in a parent zone at the expense of maintaining a stub zone entry and +a set of name server addresses in named.conf. +This usage is not recommended for new configurations, and BIND 9 +supports it only in a limited way. +In BIND 4/8, zone transfers of a parent zone +included the NS records from stub children of that zone. This meant +that, in some cases, users could get away with configuring child stubs +only in the master server for the parent zone. BIND +9 never mixes together zone data from different zones in this +way. Therefore, if a BIND 9 master serving a parent +zone has child stub zones configured, all the slave servers for the +parent zone also need to have the same child stub zones +configured. + +Stub zones can also be used as a way of forcing the resolution +of a given domain to use a particular set of authoritative servers. +For example, the caching name servers on a private network using +RFC2157 addressing may be configured with stub zones for +10.in-addr.arpa +to use a set of internal name servers as the authoritative +servers for that domain. + forward