administrating BIND with Private IPs

[Maximo Ramos]

First, thanks for your reply ...

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 06:20:38PM -0500, Kevin Darcy wrote:
> 
> You should *never* put private IP addresses in the public DNS.

I was suspecting that, that's why I sent this post ...

> Stick with what you're already doing. Your "fake domain" setup is
> actually just an implementation of "split DNS", and it is exactly how
> this situation should be addressed. What don't you like about it?

For starters, I have to tweak many services I have in my system, for
example, people who connect to my ftp, they see my fake domain, and I
had a hard time trying to configure sendmail properly (it was using
the fake domain) ... And I though there was a more "elegant" way to
deal with this.


> One thing to be aware of is that if you want your internal clients to see
> both the "fake" (internal) and "real" (external) DNS names in your zones,
> you'll have to maintain those names in *both* copies. Unfortunately,
> there's really no way around that.
> - Kevin

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Maximo Ramos