Host-level forwarding override

[Barry Margolin]

In article <eh0eau$238o$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Jan Ceuleers <janspam.ceuleers at skynet.be> wrote:

> Barry Margolin wrote:
> > Create a master zone for proxy.foo.tld instead of foo.tld.
> 
> Barry,
> 
> Unfortunately the proxy servers are named something like 
> proxy{12}.foo.tld (i.e. not proxy{12}.proxy.foo.tld). Correct me if I'm 
> wrong, but I don't think I can create master zones proxy1.foo.tld and 
> proxy2.foo.tld and have queries to these resolve as if they were 
> hostnames, or can I?

Sure you can.  What's the difference between that and having queries to 
foo.tld resolve as if they're hostnames?

The zone file for proxy1.foo.tld would look like this:

@ IN SOA ...
  IN NS yourmachine.domain.tld.
  IN A <address of proxy1>

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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