DNS "override" on private ip addresses?

[Jonas Larsen (remove nospam)]

Hi Barry!

This was so excellent that I actually had to laugh when I saw how smart this
was!

Thank you!!!

Have a nice weekend Barry!

/Jonas

"Barry Margolin" <barmar at bbnplanet.com> wrote in message
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> In article <lmLf4.341$dT4.187926528 at newsb.telia.net>,
> Jonas Larsen (remove nospam) <jola.nospam at hem.passagen.se> wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >I want all hosts using dns1 to get:
> >unixlab1.company.com = 193.44.102.15
> >
> >And all hosts in the lab using dns2 to get:
> >unixlab1.company.com = 192.168.254.15
> >
> >The problem is that dns2 have to use dns1 for lookups of hosts outside of
> >the lab...
> >
> >Have do I make an "override" in dns2 for those few lab-hosts? Or any
other
> >solution?
>
> Make dns2 a master server for the "unixlab1.company.com" zone, and put
that
> IP address in that zone file.  Have it use "forwarders { <dns1>; };" to
> look up everything else through dns1.  I.e. named.conf will contain:
>
> zone "unixlab1.company.com" {
>   type master;
>   file "db.unixlab1";
> };
>
> and the file db.unixlab1 will look like:
>
> @ IN SOA ...
>   IN NS dns2.company.com.
>   IN A 192.168.254.15
>
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