[ale] cache a domain with bind

[Chris Fowler]

I figured it out.  This is too easy and I'm sold on dnsmasq!

Thanks


On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 20:29 -0400, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 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.
> 
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