forwarding and delegation

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Abdellah Djebli <djebli at hera.med.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Hello,

> We have a split DNS environment where the internal name servers forward everything
> to the external name servers except of course for the local domain, foo.net.
> However, when we try to delegate an internal subdomain, subdomain.foo.net to
> another internal name server, the delegation does not work because the name
> server of foo.net is forwarding the queries for the subdomain to the external
> name server instead of directing it to the subdomain name server.
> Does anyone have an answer ?
> Thank you in advance.

Whenever you do a "split-dns" there is a price.

As your internal-only foo.net differs from Internet-foo.net you must
make all internal servers aware of this fact by using "forwarding" 
to the internal-only foo.net server(s).




> Abdu
> djebli at hera.med.utoronto.ca



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