Bind: question about forwarding

Barry Margolin barmar at genuity.net
Thu Sep 6 21:12:51 UTC 2001


In article <9n8jpo$778 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
FD <fabrice.ducourtioux at diplomatie.fr_nospam> wrote:
>I use two DNS servers. The first one (A) is used to resolve any query
>(except .state.wash.com, an unknwon domain on Internet). The second one (B)
>is used to resolv only .state.wash.com. I can only use server A from my LAN.
>Is it possible to re-write any query of kodi.wash.com to the name server A
>for kodi.state.wash.com and to forward this query on the server B (which is
>able to resolve such domain). In case of B is unable to respond such
>request, I would ask the Internet from server A to resolv only
>kodi.wash.com.

BIND can do the forwarding (using a "type forward" zone), but there's no
built-in feature to do the rewrite.  BIND is open source, so you can make
it do whatever you want if you're willing to do some programming.

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