delegation of a zone without authority

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Mon Jan 29 23:21:18 UTC 2001


>>>>> "David" == David B Terrell <dbt at meat.net> writes:

    David> During our transition, I'd like to tell our externally
    David> accessible nameserver that a certain set of IPs or
    David> hostnames are authoritative for example.net and
    David> 10.in-addr.arpa without slaving those zones directly.  Is
    David> there an easy way to do this?

Yes, get that external server to be a slave for your example.net and
10.in-addr.arpa zones. You could also try zone-specific forwarding. ie
By configuring that server with forward type zone{} statements for
these zones, but this is disgusting. Forwarding name servers are
usually a BAD idea.


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