Forward by zone...
Chimento, Douglas
Douglas.Chimento at FMR.COM
Fri Nov 9 16:55:45 UTC 2001
> First, zone statements of type forward can't have "masters" substatements,
> and there's no such thing as a "master" substatement at all.
i mean to say forwarders...
sorry
-----Original Message-----
From: Cricket Liu [mailto:cricket at menandmice.com]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 11:52 AM
To: Chimento, Douglas; bind-users at isc.org
Subject: RE: Forward by zone...
> suppose this...
>
> dude.com is on server A and is the master.
> sweet.dude.com sub-domain and can be resolved by Server B ( note
> that server
> B is not AUTHORITATIVE for this sub-domain)
>
> furthermore , you configure named.conf on server A like so
>
> options {
> forwarders { blah ; };
> }
>
> zone dude.com IN {
> type master;
> file "yourmom";
> };
> zone sweet.dude.com IN {
> type forward;
> forward only;
> master { server B; };
> };
First, zone statements of type forward can't have "masters" substatements,
and there's no such thing as a "master" substatement at all.
> This doesn't work , in fact server A does not even query Server
> B. I think I
> know why ( deals with authoritative crap ) but I need some advice.
Why not just put NS records in the dude.com zone delegating
sweet.dude.com to server B?
cricket
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