Internal forwarding question.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a2k348$7nl at pub3.rc.vix.com>,  <jjhirschauer at duke-energy.com> wrote:
>
>I have a need to forward querries for anything.newdomain.com (real name 
>changed) to newdomain.com's internal master name server (we have a shared 
>network) from my internal name server. My master name server has access to 
>the internet because I do not want to set up internal root servers and do 
>not want to do forwarding. I am running BIND 8.2.2-P5+IBM. It looks like 
>the view statement would help me but I believe this statement is not 
>available in 8.2.2. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to 
>accomplish what I want to do? This sounds really confusing even as I am 
>writing this so please feel free to ask questions. Thanks.

Views won't help with this, they're based on the client address, not the
domain being looked up.  You want:

zone "newdomain.com" {
  type forward;
  forwarders { <address of newdomain.com's internal server>; };
};

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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