Partial zone files?
Robert Spangler
mlists at zoominternet.net
Sun Oct 19 15:39:37 UTC 2008
On Sunday 19 October 2008 09:27, Michael Enke wrote:
> Hi all,
> is there a way to tell bind that if a systems is queried
> which is not in the zone file (but in same domain) to use the forwarder?
Nope.
> I want to do something like this:
> I have no influence in the DNS-setup for the domain existing.domain
> But I want to have the possibility for my systems to lookup
> myhost.existing.domain.
> So I setup my private DNS with the existing DNS as forwarder.
>
> I defined myhost in my zone file.
> So far so good, from now on myhost is found, but for any other host
> in existing.domain I get a
> ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
>
> For systems not in the existing.domain all is ok, the forwarder is used.
> I tried to setup my bind as slave, but the forwarder doesn't allow
> zone transfers.
Even if it did it would remove your host from that zone file and you would be
right back where you started.
> I did not find a solution for this except manually enter all systems
> which should be resolved.
>
> Thank you,
> Michael
Solution:
If you are looking to resolve just your host (which I am taking to mean that
it cannot or is not added to the master server) you could just add it to
your /etc/hosts file. Then check host.conf to ensure that hosts is first
searched.
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Regards
Robert
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