cache-only with both external and internal dns...

[Kevin Darcy]

Ricardo M. Stella wrote:

>A quick question...
>
>We have separate internal and external DNS servers.
>
>We need to set up a cache only DNS server, but when trying to to this
>(used RH RPM for it) we are hitting the external DNS servers when
>querrying internal records.
>
>I know I could simply set them up instead as a secondary, but would there
>be a way otherwise ?
>
>Seems like when I hit any host in mydomain.xxx, it goes out to the root
>servers, then comes back.
>
>We do not need to hit the external dns servers at all.
>
Where is your internal root zone? If you have one already set up, then 
slave it, stub it, or put the relevant info in your hints file. If you 
don't have one already set up, configure one of your servers as the root 
master and the others as some combination of slave/stub/hints.

                                                                         
                                    -Kevin