BIND problem

[Steve]

Corey Edwards wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 23:04 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 21:22 -0600, Corey Edwards wrote:
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>>>Sorry, that really is pretty ambiguous. I meant that anything in
>>>subdomain.foo.example.com won't resolve to the normal address. I started
>>>thinking about it and I wasn't sure why that is, so I ran a few tests.
>>>One of the domains that I forge is slashdot.org. As expected,
>>>yro.slashdot.org won't resolve on my box. Yay! That's because Bind
>>>believes it is authoritative for the whole *.slashdot.org zone, so
>>>anything not listed doesn't exist. foo.bar.yro.slashdot.org doesn't work
>>>either.
>>>      
>>>
>>That's not good for me then.  Darn it.
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>
>Here's something you can do:
>
>$TTL 3D
>$ORIGIN org.
>slashdot         IN SOA     slashdot.org. hostmaster.slashdot.org. (
>                            2005092101 ; Serial
>                            1H         ; Refresh - 8h
>                            1H         ; Retry - 2h
>                            4W         ; Expire - 4w
>                            1H         ; Negative Cache TTL - 1d
>                            )
>
>
>                 NS         your.dns.server.
>                 A          127.0.0.1
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>$ORIGIN slashdot.org.
>www              IN A       127.0.0.1
>
>yro              IN NS      ns1.ostg.com.
>yro              IN NS      ns1.vasoftware.com.
>
>Basically you're forging authority for their domain and then delegating
>the subdomains back to them. The drawback there is that you have to
>track NS changes (which should be infrequent) and you have to enumerate
>all subdomains you want to work.
>
>Will that do the trick?
>
>Corey
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Just curious, but why do this in bind?  Wouldn't it be easier and 
quicker to just use a hosts file?