[ale] cache a domain with bind

[Jim Popovitch]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 20:12, David Tomaschik <david at tuxteam.com> wrote:
> On 05/11/2010 07:57 PM, Chris Fowler wrote:
>> I would like to install a BIND server on a CentOS 5 machine and have it
>> be the first nameserver entry for a few desktops for domain.com.  The
>> problem is that domain.com already has a DNS server.  What I'm looking
>> to do is to have my own entries for domain.com in bind then cache
>> domain.com's DNS for the other entries.  Is this possible?
>>
> Not sure about bind, but I use dnsmasq for tasks like that all the
> time.  I would think it's possible with bind somehow though.

I too do this with dnsmasq.  I use to do it with bind zones, but Mike
Warfield turned me on to dnsmasq despite my despite my own objections.
:-)  dnsmasq lets you override anything with /etc/hosts entries (very
easily).  But if you insist on using bind, then look into setting up a
custom zone.

-Jim P.


-Jim P.