[rbldnsd] DNS forwarding

[Vincent Schonau]

On Jan 3, 2004, at 4:16, Amos Jeffries wrote:

> I am trying to get a DNS setup ending with rbldnsd.
>
> rbldnsd has to run on a dynamic IP. There is a bind server available 
> running on fixed IP which I want to use to relay the requests
> to my dynamic IP. For bandwidth concerns the bind PC can't contain the 
> entire zone list.
>
> Can we somehow forward all bind requests onto the rbldnsd dynamic 
> machine which is available via a static name, but not IP?
>
> This may be a bind request but if anyone here has any experience with 
> this type of setup in advice or help would be appreciated.

There's no need to do this; you can run rbldnsd on a local ip-addres on 
the same server as the BIND server, or an alias of the loopback 
interface (127.0.02, for example). Then add

zone "your.rbl.zone" {
	type forward;
	forward only;
	forwarders { 127.0.0.2; };
};

To your bind config.