pure DNS forwarder

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Sun Jan 27 02:36:49 UTC 2008


Vasiliy Baranov wrote:
>> Sounds like you're asking for a DNS proxy rather than a DNS server.
>>   
> 
> Yes, although people often use the term DNS proxy when referring to 
> something serving ordinary clients so the AA flag isn't important. In my 
> situation it is desirable for the proxy to be indistinguishable from 
> <another server> by the AA flag.
> 

There is no such thing as a DNS proxy. DNS caches and doesn't need
proxies. It is not possible to set the AA flag as it's not authorative
for the zone.

Danny



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