Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 20:28:12 -0600 From: blair@itsnet.com (Blair Schmittel) To: piero@strider.ibenet.it Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS forwarding Message-ID: <199509260228.UAA10244@scratchy.itsnet.com>
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>Use the 'forwarders' line. From "man named":
>
> The ``forwarders'' line specifies the addresses of sitewide servers that
> will accept recursive queries from other servers. If the boot file spec-
> ifies one or more forwarders, then the server will send all queries for
> data not in the cache to the forwarders first. Each forwarder will be
> asked in turn until an answer is returned or the list is exhausted. If
> no answer is forthcoming from a forwarder, the server will continue as it
> would have without the forwarders line unless it is in ``slave'' mode.
> The forwarding facility is useful to cause a large sitewide cache to be
> generated on a master, and to reduce traffic over links to outside
> servers. It can also be used to allow servers to run that do not have
> access directly to the Internet, but wish to act as though they do.
>
>The format is:
>
>forwarders <IP ADDR> [<IP ADDR> [...] ]
>
>and it must be inserted in /etc/named.boot (or wahtever file you use
>to configure your named).
>
That's not quite what I mean.
I have one server running 3 domains. What I want to do is forward one
domain to another server. Can that be done?
Thanks for your help!
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Blair Schmittel Cyber-Naut, L.C
Systems Administrator, Operations Manager
blair@itsnet.com
When in doubt, blame the phone company
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