Planned DNS setup...

[Barry Margolin]

In article <aa415h$sji at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Atkinson, Daniel <datkinson at sevenww.co.uk> wrote:
>Hi guys,
> 
>Our DNS is a bit messed up so I'm starting from scratch. I've given the
>setup some thought but since I'm quite new to this I'd like some of you
>experts to tell me if I'm thinking along the right lines.
> 
>The primary/master server will be in my DMZ, running BIND 9 with views.
>Outside hosts will query the server in the DMZ for our public zones using an
>external view. Inside hosts will also query the DMZ server but get answers
>from an internal view. For redundancy, I will have a secondary server on the
>inside of my network to serve internal hosts and secondary servers hosted at
>the ISP to serve external hosts.
> 
>I'm thinking that I'll only need to update the server in the DMZ and it will
>transfer zone data from each of it views to the internal server and those at
>the ISP. Is this possible? Am I mad?

I'm not a psychiatrist, so I'm not qualified to answer the last question,
but I believe that your configuration should work as you expect.  When
responding to the zone transfer requests, the source address of the request
will be matched against the view, and the appropriate version of the domain
should be returned.

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