split DNS for clients through a proxy

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Sat Jan 12 09:40:51 UTC 2008


> I need to know if there is a way to create a split forwarding DNS server
> with BIND 9 such that two groups of client machines are being serviced
> indirectly by two different external DNS servers. The purpose for this
> is to use the adult content filtering functionality of OpenDNS for
> machines used by children and another non-filtering DNS for machines
> used by adults. Yes, I do understand this is easily done using BIND 9
> views, but that depends on knowing the client machine's IP address. So
> here comes the wrinkle... All client machines are configured such that
> their web browsers go through a Privoxy proxy which resides on the same
> machine as the forwarding DNS service. The result of this is that client
> machines do not actually make the DNS queries - Privoxy does this for
> them, which means the forwarding DNS server only ever sees the queries
> as coming from its own IP address. The question is whether anyone knows
> of a way of achieving the split-DNS effect in this scenario.
> 
> H.

	Give the machines different proxies.
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Mark Andrews, ISC
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