Does anyone know how to?

[Bind-Users Mailist]

> From bind-users-bounce at isc.org Sun Aug  4 14:27:01 2002
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> From: phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
> Subject: Re: Does anyone know how to???
> Date: 4 Aug 2002 21:19:15 GMT
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> Bind-Users Mailist <bind-users at dns1.vizion2000.net> wrote:
> > OK Here is what I want to do. I currently am running Bind 8 on a FreeBSD server system with a number of 
> > For one of those domains say example.com I want to take requests in the form of [subdomain].example.com and parse the contents of
> > [subdomain] to produce a result in the form of [subnewsubdomain.newsubdomain].example.com which would then be used as a recursive enquiry to generate the IPaddress for subnewsubdomain.newsubdomain.example.com.
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> > Does anyone have knowledge of a module that will do this or alternatively of some ideas how I sould go aboput it. Mt C/C++ coding skills are still fuinctional but suffering from neglect. I am also not familiar with the Bind sources so all help and encouragement would be appreciated. 
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> If you control the domain in question it sounds that the CNAME
> type record should do what you ask for. Or do i mis-understand your
> question ?
>
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Yep - I apoligise I did not make clear.

[subdomain] has to be parsed to find out [newsubdomain]. It is not a straight translation that can be satisfied by using CNAME entries.

Ideally I would like to replace the CNAME class with another class e.g. PNAME which would point to the subroutine for parsing the [subdomain]. That would seem to me to be the best way of handling my requirements. 

David Southwell

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