Why are DNS requests for a forwarding zone always responded with NXDOMAIN?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • All queries for a forwarding zone are responded with NXDOMAIN result when sent to the forwarding server, while they are responded correctly when the forward target DNS server is queried directly.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • bind name server with a type forward; zone defined in /etc/named.conf

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