BIND 8 with forwarding and sub-domains under a split-dns
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Mon Sep 20 22:04:54 UTC 1999
Oops, forgot about that alternative (haven't shifted my paradigm yet :-)
This is a best-of-both-worlds approach, as long as you are running a sufficiently
modern version of BIND on your head-DNS-server to support it.
- Kevin
Barry Margolin wrote:
> In article <7s5eum$2phk$1 at news.okay.net>,
> Christian Schneider <mail at Christian-Schneider.de> wrote:
> >But since this implementation should be done under BIND 8, I cannot use the
> >no-forward patch for BIND 4... and also I think that the possibility of
> >'per-zone forwarding' new in BIND 8 won't solve the problem either...
>
> Why not? Your head-DNS-server should have:
>
> zone "your-domain" {
> type master;
> file "your-domain.db";
> forwarders {};
> }
>
> This per-zone forwarders option override the global forwarders option for
> your domain and all the subdomains of it.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
> GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA
> *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups.
> Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.
More information about the bind-users
mailing list