Selective Forwarding & root file on MS DNS

[Quadri, Jay]

I use bind and it works great, but the French branch called me for help
since they have to conform to the company technical global DNS standard but
they insist on using MS DNS.  Thanks all the same.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph S D Yao [mailto:jsdy at cospo.osis.gov]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 9:40 PM
To: Quadri, Jay
Cc: 'bind-users at isc.org'
Subject: Re: Selective Forwarding & root file on MS DNS


On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 03:53:56PM -0000, Quadri, Jay wrote:
> Running MS DNS is not my Forte.  Does any body know how to add selective
> forwarding to an MS-DNS server (v4). Does one need to upgrade to W2K
AD-BIND
> 8 for this to happen?
> 
> zone "example.firm" 
> { 
> 	type forward; forward only; 
> 	forwarders { 10.10.10.3;};
>  };

Use BIND instead.

> My second question is: how can one change the MS DNS server to use a
master
> file instead of using the normal root file.

Use BIND instead.

[You expected any other answer in the BIND mailing list?  ;-)]

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