Public / Private zones - assistance please

[Barry Margolin]

In article <38BFF403.18602B27 at asgard-systems.com>,
Bruce Schuck  <bschuck at asgard-systems.com> wrote:
>Now for the finish line.  If the external server is actually using the
>internal server for DNS lookups, do I still run a server on it to
>advertise my www,smtp,news,ftp,etc. to the rest of the world?  As I
>don't want the rest of the world to know that pc1.mydomain.com is
>actually 10.10.10.200.

Yes.  Otherwise, how will the rest of the world look up your public
servers?

>So what I am assuming is that on my dns.mydomain.com
>/etc/resolv.conf
>domain mydomain.com
>nameserver 10.10.10.10 - for arguments sake
>
>But I still have named running on dns.mydomain.com with its own view
>as a primary server?  With only the external hosts defined in its
>resource files?  And any change to an external host would need to be
>modified on both my external server and internal server.

Correct.

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