What is the role of the 'name' parameter for forward-zone?

Unbound
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I am using one unbound config with a forward-zone with name: “.”

I cannot read in the documentation what it means to have anything else there. I suspect (but that is clearly not enough).

Thanks,

Gerben Wierda (LinkedIn)
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Hi Gerben,

The name is the name of the zone.
Everything at and under that zone will be forwarded to the configured resolvers (unless more specific stubs/forwarders are configured).

"name: ." means the root zone, so everything is going to be forwarded.

Best regards,
-- George