BIND Forwarding based on domain name - feature available?

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Philippe Faure <philippe.faure at modicon.com> wrote:
> Anybody knows if there exists a stable version of BIND able to :
> - forward a DNS request to a specific server based on domain name (ie.
> *.mycompany.com). To be noticed: I can't be secondary for these internal
> domains (us.mycompany.com, uk.mycompany.com, fr.mycompany.com ... and so
> on), which could have been imagined as a workaround.
> - while keeping the forward for requests regarding unknown domains in a
> standard way to the root servers

Any modern bind8 and bind9 can do this.

Read about "forward zones"

A copy of bind-9 manual is at :
"http://www.ipsec.nu/dns/bind9/Bv9ARM.ch06.html#zone_statement_grammar"




> I'm running BIND over SUN Solaris machines.

replace your bind with a current version.

> Thanks




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