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

2014-05-09 Thread Phil Mayers
On 09/05/2014 18:47, Jon Fullmer wrote: (Sorry, let's try that again WITHOUT "smart quotes":) Yeaaahhh that did not work out so well: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="big5" Your apostrophes ended up being a chinese character, CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6613 according to Python's unicodedata

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

2014-05-09 Thread Jon Fullmer
(Sorry, let's try that again WITHOUT "smart quotes":) Rich, you and Barry both touched on my original tactic. I can define "something.xyz.com" as a master zone with a single entry. The problem, as you pointed out, is that this doesn't catch "www.something.xyz.com". Unfortunately, the "www" section

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

2014-05-09 Thread Jon Fullmer
Rich, you and Barry both touched on my original tactic. I can define ³something.xyz.com² as a master zone with a single entry. The problem, as you pointed out, is that this doesn¹t catch ³www.something.xyz.com². Unfortunately, the ³www² section will have any number of random hosts, so putting manua

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

2014-05-08 Thread Rich Goodson
On your resolver, create a zone called something.xyz.com and only have one entry, an A record for the zone itself. something like this: ---begin something.xyz.com zonefile--- something.xyz.com. in soa ns1.abc.com. hostmaster.abc.com. ( 2014050901 3H 300 2W

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

2014-05-08 Thread John Wingenbach
What you are looking for is basically dnsmasq. That allows you to override specific resolutions, while letting the rest go through the normal process. BIND does not allow you to have split authority for a single zone. if you say something.xyz.com is handled locally, then anything under that

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

2014-05-08 Thread Barry Margolin
In article , fullme...@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

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

2014-05-08 Thread fullmerjf
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 stil