Bind provides answer for comp.host.com, forwards rest of host.com - possible?

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Stuart Moore <stjm2 at cam.ac.uk.removethispart> wrote:
> Sorry if this is a silly question; I've done my best to search around 
> for answers before posting.

> I'd like to have a nameserver running Bind 9.2.1 to provide an ip 
> address for comp.host.com, but forward any other queries for host.com to 
> another dns.

> I'm guessing this isn't possible but thought it'd be worth a try.

Wrong. It's easily doable.

Create a zone "comp.host.com" as master, assign an address to this zone
(in addition to SOA and NS records). 



> Why would I like to do this? lazyness ;) In my case comp.host.com is a 
> news server on a network I have no control over, and is only accessible 
> from within that network. I'd like to access it from my home network too 
> without having to change settings every time. I can use ssh forwarding 
> to get a local computer to forward requests there, so I'd like to be 
> able to get my home network dns to report comp.host.com as the computer 
> doing the ssh forwarding. But I want to be able to get the rest of 
> host.com to be whatever the rest of the world sees.

> Hope this is clear, and many thanks

> Stuart



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