how can intranet and Internet DNS coexist

[Joseph S D Yao]

> Here is my question: How can I configure my local PC's to go to my
> local DNS server for Internet name resolution and to the private DNS
> server for name resolution on the remote intranet. I have tried
> configuring the PC's with both DNS entries but it doesn't seem to
> work. The network whose DNS server is listed first works, the other
> doesn't.

As you've seen, only one of your DNS servers is contacted at a time.
The resolver WILL NOT go to multiple DNS servers on its own.

If you had BIND 8.2ff [which you should ... just get a system on which
it will run ;-)], then you could forward references to the private
domain to the private name server.  Since you are, necessarily, running
a much older version of BIND, it's possible that you can stick an NS
record for the private domain into one of your other zone files, and
that BIND 4.9.* will accept it.  In fact, if it doesn't, then you can
just re-compile the BIND 4.9.* with NO_GLUE _n_o_t_ defined, and it
will work.

Isn't Open Source software wonderful?  ;-)

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