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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
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+Forwarding
+----------
+
+*Forwarding* configuration instructs resolver to forward cache-miss queries from clients to manually specified DNS resolvers *(upstream servers)*. In other words the *forwarding* mode does exact opposite of the default *recursive* mode because resolver in *recursive* mode automatically selects which servers to ask.
+
+Main use-cases are:
+
+  - Building a tree structure of DNS resolvers to improve performance (by improving cache hit rate).
+  - Accessing domains which are not available using recursion (e.g. if internal company servers return different answers than public ones).
+  - Forwarding through a central DNS traffic filter.
+
+Forwarding implementation in Knot Resolver has following properties:
+
+  - Answers from *upstream* servers are cached.
+  - Answers from *upstream* servers are locally DNSSEC-validated, unless :func:`policy.STUB` is used.
+  - Resolver automatically selects which IP address from given set of IP addresses will be used (based on performance characteristics).
+  - Forwarding can use either unencrypted DNS protocol, or :ref:`tls-forwarding`.
+
+.. warning::
+
+        We strongly discourage use of "fake top-level domains" like ``corp.`` because these made-up domains are indistinguishable from an attack, so DNSSEC validation will prevent such domains from working. If you *really* need a variant of forwarding which does not DNSSEC-validate received data please see chapter :ref:`dns-graft`. In long-term it is better to migrate data into a legitimate, properly delegated domains which do not suffer from these security problems.
+
+
+Simple examples for **unencrypted** forwarding:
+
+.. code-block:: lua
+
+        -- forward all traffic to specified IP addresses (selected automatically)
+        policy.add(policy.all(policy.FORWARD({'2001:db8::1', '192.0.2.1'})))
+
+        -- forward only queries for names under domain example.com to a single IP address
+        policy.add(policy.suffix(policy.FORWARD('192.0.2.1'), {todname('example.com.')}))
+
+To configure encrypted version please see chapter :ref:`tls-forwarding`.
+
+Forwarding is documented in depth together with rest of :ref:`mod-policy`.