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? > > 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. > Which zone file? existing.domain? That's not going to work, since it'll defeat your forwarding.
Define the zone myhost.existing.domain and leave your forwarding in place. I just tested it and it works. > 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 > - Kevin
