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. -- Regards Robert It is not just an adventure. It is my job!! Linux User #296285 http://counter.li.org
