How does a child domain point back to parent?
Barry Margolin
barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Oct 8 17:59:06 UTC 1999
In article <7tjvl1$v2m$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, <mkrieger at readersdigest.com> wrote:
>Let's say that my DNS is authoritative for mycompany.com (internal
>corporate domain). I create NS and A records to delegate the
>us.mycompany.com to another name server. No problem so far.
>
>If the us.mycompany.com server receives queries from clients that want
>to resolve hosts in mycompany.com, what needs to be done on the server
>that's authoritative for us.mycompany.com? I don't want it going to
>the root name servers because they'll return the mycompany.com Internet
>address (mycompany.com is both internal and external).
You can either configure it as a secondary server for the mycompany.com
domain, or configure it as a forwarding zone:
zone "mycompany.com" {
type forward;
forwarders { <address of mycompany.com server>; }
}
This latter configuration requires BIND 8.2 or newer.
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