avoiding resolution (and timeouts)

[Kevin Darcy]

Dan Bar Dov wrote:

>I have a set of systems with dual ports.=20
>One set of ports is set as an internal network, the other are on an
>external network.
>
>One of these systems is a "server" for the internal network. For example
>all syslogs go there.
>My problem started with the syslog on the master trying to resolve the
>internal addresses.=20
>It failed of course, since they are not served by any name server,=20
>but it takes time for the resolver to get the answer.
>
>I'd like to set up a name server on the master. I'd like it to listen
>only on the internal network (easy),
>But I also want it to immediately reply with a failure on any
>resolution.=20
>(syslog 1.4 has a -x flag that causes it to not try to resolve
>addresses, this is the behavior=20
>I want all resolvers to get, whatever they are, so my guess is I need to
>do it in named=20
>and not in the resolvers)
>
>The reason I'd like it to fail, is so I don't have to maintain a real
>zone for the=20
>internal network, being of no interest to anyone.
>
Empty root zone, perhaps? It'll need an SOA and an NS record, but that's 
it...

                                                                        
                        - Kevin

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