Zone searching

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Tue Nov 16 19:34:32 UTC 1999


In article <38316254.3F0F98BA at nimr.mrc.ac.uk>,
Jacques Hugo  <jhugo at nimr.mrc.ac.uk> wrote:
>Is there a way to setup bind that
>it will search all zones for a
>client even if the client does not
>have all the search options in its
>resolv.conf file?

No.  Servers don't do searching, they just return the data for the specific
name that the client requested.  Old versions of BIND allowed you to
configure a single default domain in the server, but this feature was
removed several years ago.

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