Answer for a specific host, but recurse for all others within a zone

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Thu May 8 18:54:25 UTC 2014


In article <mailman.181.1399569458.26362.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 fullmerjf at ldschurch.org wrote:

> Does anyone know how I might configure bind to answer for a specific host 
> within the zone, but perform a recursive lookup for the rest of the zone?
> 
> For example, given the domain "xyz.com", how might I configure a local DNS 
> server to reslove "something.xyz.com" to, maybe, a local server, but still 
> allow "Wwww.xyz.com", "mail.xyz.com" and "www.something.xyz.com" to still 
> recursively resolve?
> 
> Is there a way?
> 
>  - Jon

Configure the server as authoritative for the "something.xyz.com" zone, 
and put the local server address in an A record at the apex.

-- 
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA


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