Internal/External DNS question

[Kevin Darcy]

jmarin at pyy.jmp.fi wrote:

> In article <9kpsh7$19k at pub3.rc.vix.com>, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>
> >Some people like having a subdomain, though I prefer not.  It gets
> >people too confused that machines have a different name inside and
> >out.
>
> I feel the same way.
>
> >It is your choice.  If you configure them with the same name,
> >use forwarders from the inside to the outside, so the inside server
> >will ask the outside server for any name it doesn't know.
>
> This does not work.  I wish it did, but it doesn't.  Both the internal and
> external server believe they are the authoritative one and they never
> forward queries about their own domain.

That's the way it is supposed to work. If you have names which need to be
resolvable internally and externally, then you must maintain them in
*both* versions of the zone.

> I would like to set up two servers (you can even run them on a single
> machine if you like).

With BIND 9, you could even run multiple "view"s in a single nameserver
instance.


- Kevin