Forwarded queries have the 'recursion desired' bit set to 0, meaning that this
setting is intended to forward queries to authoritative servers.
+**IMPORTANT**: When using DNSSEC validation (which is default), forwards to non-delegated (e.g. internal) zones that have a DNSSEC signed parent zone will validate as Bogus.
+To prevent this, add a Negative Trust Anchor (NTA) for this zone in the [`lua-config-file`](#lua-config-file) with `addNTA("your.zone", "A comment")`.
+If this forwarded zone is signed, instead of adding NTA, add the DS record to the [`lua-config-file`](#lua-config-file).
+See the [recursor DNSSEC](dnssec.md) documentation for more information.
+
## `forward-zones-file`
* Path
* Available since: 3.1.5
Comments are allowed since version 4.0.0. Everything behind '#' is ignored.
+The DNSSEC notes from [`forward-zones`](#forward-zones) apply here as well.
+
## `forward-zones-recurse`
* 'zonename=IP' pairs, comma separated
* Available since: 3.2
'recursion desired' bit set to 1, meaning that this setting is intended to
forward queries to other recursive servers.
+The DNSSEC notes from [`forward-zones`](#forward-zones) apply here as well.
+
## `hint-file`
* Path
* Available since: 2.9.19