[TriLUG] Help with caching dns server

[Aaron Joyner]

Mm... good call!  :D  As an added bonus, for hostnames sharing the
same IP, you could share zone files with liberal use of @ and relative
naming.

Aaron S. Joyner


On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Aaron Schrab <aaron at schrab.com> wrote:
> At 09:36 -0400 18 Sep 2008, Aaron Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:
>>the behavior you want.  The behavior I suspect you really want is to
>>just overload the name 'lmr.gotdns.com' internally, and resolve other
>>names in the 'gotdns.com' domain from the 'gotdns.com' authoritative
>>nameservers.  To the best of my knowledge, this is not possible with
>>the standard compile of BIND.  You can do it on the client, via
>
> This could be done by configuring BIND to be authoritative for a zone
> called "lmr.gotdns.com".  If there are other hosts in that same domain
> that are to be redefined, each would need to be put in its own zone.
>
> If this is done, it's especially important to include the trailing dot
> in names:
>
> lmr.gotdns.com. IN A 127.0.0.1
>
> Alternatively, the @ sign can be used to refer to the zone name:
>
> @  IN A 127.0.0.1
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