DNS zone to host only certain records & forward other requests to other DNS Servers.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <ebett5$54b$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Manjunath H N" <Manjunath.hn at mphasis.com> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Barry
> > Margolin
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:05 PM
> > 
> > If you only want to override www.webserver.partner.com, and not other
> > XXX.partner.com names, create a zone www.webserver.partner.com.  That
> > way you won't be authoritative for the rest of he partner.com domain,
> so
> > those names will be resolved normally via the Internet.
> 
> If I create a zone www.webserver.partner.com how would the requests to
> www.subdomain.webserver.partner.com be resolved ? I suppose the client
> will look upto this zone for resolution, can this be overridden ?

No.  When you create a zone named XXX, it only handles requests for 
names ending in XXX.  Since www.subdomain.webserver.partner.com doesn't 
end in www.webserver.partner.com, it won't be handled by that zone.

You'll need a separate zone for each name you want to override locally, 
unless you want to shadow a whole domain.  For instance, if you want to 
override all XXX.webserver.partner.com names, you can create this as a 
zone.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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