Bind812. Point to another domain without root servers.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <932pmh$70b at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Diego Balgera <diego.balgera at nokia.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>my question is simple. I have a dns (dns1) with bind 8.1.2, with authority
>(SOA) over a zone (assume it is domain1.com). I would like to configure it
>to ask queries to another dns (dns2) with authority over another zone
>(domain2.com). I should configure the root dns, but at the moment I haven't
>any root dns at all.
>So, is it possible to fill the "." hint zone file to point directly to the
>other domain without going up in the hierarchy?

No.  The hints file is only used to get the initial list of root NS
records.

You need to upgrade to BIND 8.2, and then you can create a "forwarding"
zone:

zone "domain2.com" {
  type forward;
  forwarders { 100.101.102.103; };
};

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