From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 25 19:11:44 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA04548 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 19:11:44 -0700 Received: from scratchy.itsnet.com (scratchy.itsnet.com [204.118.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA04539 for ; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 19:11:39 -0700 Received: from mail.itsnet.com by scratchy.itsnet.com; Mon, 25 Sep 1995 20:28:12 -0600 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 1995 20:28:12 -0600 Message-Id: <199509260228.UAA10244@scratchy.itsnet.com> X-Sender: blair@mail.itsnet.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 1.4.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: piero@strider.ibenet.it From: blair@itsnet.com (Blair Schmittel) Subject: Re: DNS forwarding Cc: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >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 [ [...] ] > >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! ---------------------------------------------- Blair Schmittel Cyber-Naut, L.C Systems Administrator, Operations Manager blair@itsnet.com When in doubt, blame the phone company