Static IP resolving in BIND 8.x

[Oliver Neumann]

Hi Arjen,

thanks for your answer, I have implemented the zone file now, but I still
have a problem.

Lets imagine having an entry in named.conf like this :

-x-x- named.conf -x-x-

[...]
zone "foobar.com" IN {
        type master;
        notify no;
        file "foobar.com.zone";
};

-x-x- named.conf -x-x-

and I have set up the following zone-file :

-x-x- foobar.com.zone -x-x-
$TTL    3D
@       IN      SOA     foo.foobar.com. root.foo.foobar.com. (
                                      2002020601; Serial
                                      8H        ; Refresh
                                      2H        ; Retry
                                      4W        ; Expire
                                      1D )      ; Minimum
                NS      foo.foobar.com.
                MX      10      foo.foobar.com.

foobar    A       100.100.100.100

foo    CNAME   foobar
-x-x- foobar.com.zone -x-x-

So now foo.foobar.com will be resolved to 100.100.100.100 ... that's clear.
But now imagine there is also an www.foobar.com and this domain should be
resolved via ROOT-DNS-Server. Can I set up the system that way, that every
*.foobar.com subdomain which cannot be resolved within my zone-file, will be
tried via root-servers?

Oliver Neumann

"Arjen van Drie" <arjen-bind at 3va.net> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 10:21, Oliver Neumann wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have a problem with static IP resolving in bind 8.x!
> >
> > I want bind to statically resolv to adresses without creating zone-files
for
> > these IPs. How can I force bind to resolve e.g.
> >
> > foo.foobar.com --> 100.100.100.100
> >
> > and vice versa
> >
> > 100.100.100.100 -> foo.foobar.com
> >
> > without having to create zone-files for foobar.com? I configured
> > nsswitch.conf (Linux System, SuSE) so that there is an entry
> >
> > Hosts        files dns
> >
> > but this doesn't work, Bind will not read the /etc/hosts File or does
ignore
> > it. Am I doing anything wrong?
>
> You have a few things mixed up. Bind _never_ reads your /etc/hosts file.
> This file is for your operating system. If you want to do what you wanna
> do you do need a zonefile. That is the way it works.
>
> /etc/hosts is for your OS, and is only read by localhost. In
> nsswitch.conf you tell your machine where to look first for host info.
> Bind really doesn't care about this.
>
> Arjen
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