Local resolution of some parent domain hosts

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Sat Apr 14 02:11:37 UTC 2007


In article <evo9vt$12ut$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Kerney, Stephen A" <stephen.a.kerney at usa-spaceops.com> wrote:

> Is it possible to configure a BIND 8.1.2 name server which is authoritative 
> for domain A.B.C. to locally resolve some, but not all, of the hosts on 
> parent
> domain B.C. such that B.C. domain name servers are used by the A.B.C. domain 
> name server to resolve all other B.C. hosts and x.B.C subdomain hosts and if
> so, how is this configuration set up?

Configure your server as authoritative for the specific host.B.C zones 
that you don't want to go to the parent server for:

zone "host1.b.c" {
  type master;
  file "host1.b.c.db";
};
zone "host2.b.c" {
  type master;
  file "host2.b.c.db";
};
....

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