Forward an RR to another name server

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Thu May 24 19:12:12 UTC 2001


Well, did it work or didn't it? Recursion isn't necessary to delegate a
subzone.

Recursion *is* necessary, however, to use forwarding. So in that case you need
to make a decision of whether or not to support recursion.


- Kevin

kmcelwain at pointcloud.com wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> Is it possible to forward an RR to another name server?  I would like to
> forward www requests to a load balancer that has a minimal DNS server, so
> when someone looks up www.mydomain.com, my bind 9.1.2 server will tell them
> to go to the load balancer's DNS server to get the A record to the colo
> with the least load.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kirk McElwain
>
> --On 24. mai 2001 19:02 +0200 Eivind Olsen <eivind.olsen at ttyl.com> wrote:
> > On dns.example.com you, in the zone-file for the example.com zone, you
> > could have:
> >
> > load.example.com                  IN A 10.10.2.1   (or, the IP-address it
> has)
> > www.example.com                   IN NS load.example.com
>
> Of course I forgot the closing dots, so it should be more like
>
> load.example.com.                   IN A 10.10.2.1
> www.example.com.                    IN NS load.example.com.
>
> .but you probably got the point anyway. ;)
>
> --
> Talk To You Later
> Eivind Olsen
>
> Thanks,
>
> That worked great, but I lost the ability to not use recursion.  I shut it
> off in named.conf > options.  It doesn't make sense, since www.mydomain.com
> is being delegated to ns4.mydomain.com.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kirk McElwain
> Network Administrator
> Point Cloud, Inc.
> (763)551-1950 ext. 21





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