pure DNS forwarder

[Barry Margolin]

In article <fnce4r$2c9f$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Vasiliy Baranov <Vasiliy.Baranov at Sun.COM> wrote:

> Dear BIND gurus,
> 
> By any change, is it somehow possible to configure BIND as a pure 
> forwarder like this:
> 
> options {
>         directory "/var/named";
>         forwarders { <another server>; };
>         forward only;
> };
> 
> // END OF /etc/named.conf
> 
> and so that it will not clear the AA (Authoritative Answer) flag in 
> responses from <another server> that have the AA flag set?
> 
> I understand this is odd but anyways?

Sounds like you're asking for a DNS proxy rather than a DNS server.

> Actually, I think even DNS-agnostic redirection would do the trick for 
> me, but cannot find a reliable readily available solution for both TCP 
> and UDP. Any ideas?

I don't think there's a way to force it to retain the AA flag.  If you 
just want to prevent it from caching, you could use the max-cache-ttl 
and max-ncache-ttl options, setting them very low.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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