2 zone files for one domain?
Kevin Darcy
kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Nov 8 03:25:57 UTC 2005
Barry Margolin wrote:
>In article <dko6bk$p4c$1 at sf1.isc.org>, "silijim" <starr.jim at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>
>
>>How can I set up a BIND server (on a RHEL AS 4.1 system) so that I can
>>have additional entries for a zone that is mastered on another
>>computer?
>>
>>I have no control over the my company's DNS server but I would like to
>>set up server that would provide additional name records for a single
>>domain (the guy who runs the DNS won't update it with new names that I
>>would like to have). I do have control over the clients and can point
>>them to my server instead of his but I still need his server's data.
>>
>>Thanks for your help in advance.
>>
>>
>
>Create subzones for each of these names, and make your server
>authoritative for them. E.g. if the company domain is company.com, your
>named.conf could contain:
>
>zone "extrahost1.company.com" {
> type master;
> file "extrahost1.db";
>};
>zone "extrahost2.company.com" {
> type master;
> file "extrahost2.db";
>};
>and so on.
>
Right, but be aware that, as *undelegated* subzones, any given resolver
will be unable to resolve these unless it is explicitly configured to
know about them. This implies defining each one as
master/slave/stub/forward on each caching nameserver/resolver that needs
resolution of them.
- Kevin
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