How does a child domain point back to parent?

[Joseph S D Yao]

> In article <199910082117.RAA08465 at fw1-b.osis.gov>,
> Joseph S D Yao  <jsdy at cospo.osis.gov> wrote:
> >> address (mycompany.com is both internal and external).
> >That is your problem.  You shouldn't do that.  If there are machines on
> >external mycompany.com names, then make the internal names a separate
> >domain.
> 
> Huh?  Almost everyone who does split DNS uses the same domain both
> internally and externally.  All you have to do is ensure that the internal
> server includes everything that's on the external server that an internal
> user may need to access (e.g. www.mycompany.com).

Mmm... yes, and I do that as well.  I had gotten the impression there
were a large number of hosts on each side - NOT the kind of thing you
want to constantly update in 2 or more different zone file sets.  ;-)

But you have a point.

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