Split DNS

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Fri Apr 8 22:26:04 UTC 2005


Carl wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I would like to use a Split DNS config for domain.com to have differnet 
>result on name resolution depending on the location (local or public)
>
>So I have configured the public zone in a DNS provider, and installed a 
>BIND 9.2.2 on a local host. All local hosts are configured to use the 
>local DNS server.
>
>It's work perfectly BUT, I have many public hosts that need to be 
>resolved identicaly whatever public or local name server is used.
>
>With My actual install I have to synchronized manually these hosts 
>between my local DNS and the public one.
>
>Is there a way to configue the domain.com zone in the local DNS server 
>to work like this :
>- if the zone file contains the requested info, return it.
>- if not forward the request to the public DNS server
>
>I now how to do this if zone are distincts, but how to achieve that on a 
>single zone ?
>
>Any suggestion greatly appreciated,
>
BIND has no way to do that. You'll just have to maintain the common data 
in parallel.

- Kevin




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