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From: nomann@diku.dk (Ole Nomann Thomsen)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: nameserver for part of a zone ?
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.114129.27761@odin.diku.dk>
Date: 17 Apr 91 11:41:29 GMT
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Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
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This question might be naive, and is probably malformed, as I
have practically no experience in setting up nameservers. I hope you 
can understand me anyway.

I would like to set up a BIND-server on a SCO-UNIX system, that has
authority over a part of a zone, like this:

[1] All queries, outside the zone, are resolved as usual.
[2] Queries inside the zone are tried against local (authoritative) data.
    (Here in the file "myfile").
    If the answer is found, it is returned, else [3] is tried.
[3] The queries are recursively forwarded to other servers for the same zone.

I have tried several different configurations of the named.boot file.
f.ex.:

The line :

primary		mydom.mytop		myfile

gives me [2].

The line:

secondary	mydom.mytop		v.x.y.z		myfile

(where v.x.y.z is the IP of an authoritative nameserver for the zone) gives
me [3] but not [2].

I even tried using both lines (with or without v.x.y.z), but no matter
what I do, I have only [2] xor [3], can't I have both ? Maybe this is 
gross, but it seems to me to be usefull gross, because "mydom.mytop" is
shared between several organizations, who don't need to know most of
the local names, I'd like to use.
-- 

- Ole. (nomann@diku.dk).