DNS External/Internal Shadow Domains?

[Cricket Liu]

> Thanks for your response.  The issue is not to standard.
> I assume your message below assumes that the Internal name
> servers use Internal root name servers.  If so, I agree it
> seems pretty standard.  The only problem we are seeing with
> this configuration is that we would like to setup our Internal
> name servers as both the Internal root name server and Internal
> domain name server.  This causes some confusion concerning setting
> the "forward" option on the Internal name server.

As James pointed out, internal root configurations won't let you resolve
Internet domain names.

> If you setup an Internal root name server, can it exist on a name
> server that is setup as a forwarder?

Nope.

cricket

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