In news:n30nv19cg70ffq6pt9kjsuoreq8mhpaboq@4ax.com,
Peter Lecki <plecki2@ralotter.com> stated, which I commented on below:
> I'm not sure how to easily explain what I'm trying to do, so this
> might be a bit convoluted...
>
> Is there a way to configure somewhat of a "partial" zone where I would
> set up a few A records, but all others would be referred to another
> forward lookup server? For example, if we're talking about
> "domain.com" and I want to have A records for "host1" and "host2" at
> domain.com, so that my internal clients resolve it to whatever I
> specify, but all other queries which I don't have entries for would be
> referred to the forwarding server, including the "root" of domain.com.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter.

What is your scenario? Are you saying your internal domain name is the same
as the external domain name (Split-zone)?

Keep in mind, if a server is hosting a zone called 'domain.com', it will
NOT forward out queries for domain.com because the zone exists on it. If you
are attempting a split-zone config, from what I am *assuming*, then in your
internal zone, create the required records for the external resources and
provide their actual public IPs that are being hosted by your ISP's or
whatever external DNS servers are hosting your public domain. And if this is
the case, do not alter the (same as parent) record, since that is an AD
specific record. Tell your users to always use the www prefix to access the
external website. There's a way around this and can address it if you are
interested.

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