How to forward unqualified domain names to resolve in other dns server?

pavlidis · 08-05-2013, 01:50 AM

Due to lack of capability of dhcp offered domain name search list in Windows (all of them! Only with scripting or GPO), I thought that maybe that can be done via some trick from the dns server (named).

So, is there any way in the configuration in named.conf that I can trick it, to somehow forward unqualified domain names that do not resolve with local zone, to another dns/zone? I tried normal forward to no avail.

Thanks in advance.

Ser Olmy · 08-05-2013, 04:56 AM

The forward option (or zone) will do what you're asking.

You can specify a forwarder in the "options" section to have BIND forward all unresolved queries, or you can define a zone of type "forward" to forward requests related to a specific domain to another DNS server.

What you cannot do, is rewrite the query itself or "map" a query for one domain/zone into another.