Routing requests to my local domain's www to an external www server using bind

Goal

I want to get my web browser to display the contents of the page at http://www.google.com when I navigate to http://www.domain.tld (leaving the latter in the browser address bar after loading).

What I've attempted

I'm a bind newbie trying to set up a local domain (say domain.tld).

In my zone file I tried adding the following records but get various errors like 404, unreachable, serverfail:

# doesn't work
www IN CNAME www.google.com.
www2 IN A www.google.com

When I route to web servers on my LAN, A records work fine:

# works
www IN A 192.168.1.2
nuc IN A 192.168.1.3

Question

Either my DNS configuration is incorrect/incomplete or my understanding of DNS servers is lacking something crucial. Where am I wrong?

Additional information

Contents of /etc/bind/named.conf.local

zone "domain.tld" {
      type master;
      file "/etc/bind/zones/domain.tld.db";
      };**

dig -x www.domain.tld response:

; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> -x www.domain.tld
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 34575
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;tld.domain.www.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
in-addr.arpa.           3600    IN      SOA     b.in-addr-servers.arpa. nstld.iana.org. 2015072757 1800 900 604800 3600

;; Query time: 1233 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 21 16:20:04 2016
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 113

Sridhar Sarnobat

Posted 2016-01-21T23:49:42.597

Reputation: 870

There is a good chance that the Google servers look at the Host: header your browser sends, and if it says anything besides google.com or any of their other domains, it responds with an error. I would testing your bind setup using nslookup or dig, not the web browser. – heavyd – 2016-01-22T00:11:48.000

Thanks for the answer. I'll updated my question with the output of dig. So is my goal impossible with Google as the target, or is there a more bullet proof way to accomplish what I'm trying to? – Sridhar Sarnobat – 2016-01-22T00:21:06.127

You'd need a proxy or redirect. – qasdfdsaq – 2016-01-22T00:31:24.180

Can that be done with a DNS server like bind? Or do I need a web server like Apache? (I'd have thought the latter would be limited to a particular port). – Sridhar Sarnobat – 2016-01-22T00:32:32.560

And any pointers to the directive I need to look up in the manual would be a big help. – Sridhar Sarnobat – 2016-01-22T00:33:41.773

Routing requests to my local domain's www to an external www server using bind

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