Internal / external DNS?

[Michael Kjorling]

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On May 20 2002 17:17 -0000, John Oliver wrote:

> I want to have two nameds running... one on an internal address to
> resolve private addresses, and one on an external address to resolve
> public addresses.  But, if a lookup against the internal server fails, I
> want it to then query the external server rather than return host
> unknown or whatever.  Is this possible?  If so, what would this behavior
> be called so I can look it up? :-)

You are probably looking for split DNS. However, you must be aware
that "host not found" (NXDOMAIN) or "no data" (NOERROR with
ancount==0) is not a failure. The query was answered successfully.

BIND 9 has views which allows you to do pretty much what you want with
as little hassle as possible.


Michael Kjörling

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