delegating subname.localdomain to 127.0.0.2 on the client machine?

[Mark Hedges]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2010, Barry Margolin wrote:
> >
> > The scenario is a farm of sendmail + RBL servers that
> > have independent management and databases, but a single
> > bind server.  Sendmail etc. would do a lookup of
> > 78.56.34.12.rbl.localdomain and it would look at
> > localhost on 127.0.0.2, where the local RBL service
> > listens.
>
> You need to run a caching nameserver on the sendmail
> machines, and point them to 127.0.0.1 in /etc/resolv.conf.
> The stub resolver doesn't follow delegations, it sends
> recursive queries and expects the server to do all the
> work.

Thanks that works awesomely!  --mark--