intercepting unresolved dns requests

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Nov 20 00:07:03 UTC 2002


Paul Tostevin wrote:

> Hi
> Is there anyway we can intercept an unresolved response from  a root
> name server and transform to it an ACCEPT with a specific IP address
> rather than an UNKNOWN message? i.e. a client sends a request for
> fff.fff.com and our DNS sends it to the root name servers. We know
> that we are going to get an UNKNOWN domain reply from the root name
> server. We don't want to send this; instead we want to send an ACCEPT
> / resolved with a local ip address as the result of the original DNS
> query.

BIND has no way to do this, and arguably it's something better done by a
proxy anyway.


- Kevin




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