Domain Name Forwarding

[Merton Campbell Crockett]

On 25 Jul 2006, at 23:52 , Mokwena Motseto wrote:

> You can use zone forwarding

...for some definition of forwarding.

If you have a "properly" constructed zone file that uses BIND's  
capability to append the current origin to a host name, a single zone  
file can be used to populate both the eye4you.com.au and  
eye4you.com.nz zones.  The "official", if you will, fully-qualified  
domain name of the host will be whatever is defined in the IN- 
ADDR.ARPA zone file.

Unfortunately or unfortunately, as the case may be, my organisation  
has been acquired by increasingly larger companies over the last 25  
years.  We have been using this technique to provide a graceful  
transition from one domain to the next for nearly as long.

The only catch is that the name usage must be identical in each zone.

Merton Campbell Crockett



> -----Original Message-----
> From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
> Behalf Of Barry Margolin
> Sent: 25 July 2006 01:17
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
> Subject: Re: Domain Name Forwarding
>
> In article <ea2trc$1g2c$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
>  "plasma" <nathan.manzi at eye4you.com.au> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I want to be able to forward any request coming in to my DNS server
>> asking for eye4you.co.nz to go to eye4you.com.au, is there any way I
>> can do this via BIND? What would be the best way to do this?
>
> Just give them both the same A and MX records.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
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Merton Campbell Crockett
m.c.crockett at adelphia.net