Subdomain nameserver configuration question...
Kyle McDonald
KMcDonald at Egenera.COM
Mon Jul 7 19:06:01 UTC 2008
Here I go talking to myself again... ;)
Kyle McDonald wrote:
> Anyway, I now find myself setting up nameservers for a subdomain, where
> the parent domain is using a split-horizon, or spilt-DNS setup. So far
> I've setup bind with the hint DB of root servers, and it's working great
> for resolving records in domains outside the company (we have a NAT
> firewall so that is needed.) but it also means that lookups for hosts in
> the parent (or other-subdomains of the parent) get hung up try to be
> resolved by the external side of the parent domain which doesn't know
> anything about any of them.
>
> I've read through the Split DNS configuration, and it covers setting
> that up pretty well, but I haven't seen any mention of how to configure
> child subdomains of the parent.
>
>
I setup my servers as slaves of the parent domain, and that seems to
have fixed the problem so far.
It seems like a hack though.
Reading through other solutions to other problems posted to this list
since I joined, I had the idea that maybe I should setup the parent
domain servers as forwarders? but do I really want to push all internet
lookups through those servers and add that additional hop?
Is there some better way to solve this problem?
-Kyle
> I don't know if it matters, but for completeness I'll add that (at
> least) the internal side of the parent domain is served by 2 Win2003 AD
> machines with MS DNS.
>
> What do I need to do to make sure that requests for the parent and other
> internal subdomains get resolved internally?
>
> -Kyle
>
>
>
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