Help: Two domains

phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu
Sun Jul 7 18:53:09 UTC 2002


Ng Wai Lun <pedro at ust.hk> wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I've scratched my head for a few days to solve the following problem. Any 
> help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. 
> Here is the situation!
>  
> There are two internal DNS servers: ServerA for hosting domainA and 
> ServerB for hosting doaminB. Each server is the primary DNS server for 
> its domain. Suppose ComputerA is pointing to ServerA for name solving and 
> ComputerB is pointing to ServerB.
>  
> Since each DNS server can only resolve its own domain, ComputerA is only 
> able to access the hosts in domainA.
>  
> Because of some non-technical issues, ServerA cannot host DomainB as 
> slave and vice versa.  Setting Computer A's primary DNS to ServerA and 
> secondary DNS to ServerB is not a workable solution.
>  
> Is there any way to allow ComputerA to access both the hosts in DomainA 
> and DomainB?
> I've heard that changing the dns server to interactive mode is a possible 
> solution but I don't know how to do that. Can anyone point me to the 
> right directory?

You could use a forward zone ( of B ) in A and a forward zone ( of A ) in B

Won't reach subdomains of A and B but that might be a non-issue ?


>  
> Thank you thank you very much!!
> __________________________________________________________________ Pedro 
> Ng 
> ICQ#: 62958193 
> wlng at hkucs.org
> __________________________________________________________________ 




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