problem with views

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Mar 1 21:50:26 UTC 2006


Tom Schmitt wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I have a problem with configuring views on Bind 9.3.2 in the correct way.
>
>The situation:
>I run a Bind 9.3.2 which is secondary for a specific zone. Most clients
>should ask the server and getting the correct response. (This part is
>working)
>
>Now I have a networks with other clients who should get other answers for
>the same request. At a first look: The classic task for different views.
>
>But there is a problem I cannot solve:
>Theses new clients should only get for a few hundred DNS-Records in the zone
>a different response. For all other records they should get the normal
>correct response.
>When I now write a second Zonefile with the different entries for the new
>view, how can I get the following changes in the original Zone in the future
>to the new view?
>The Primary do not know about the new view. He sends only updates for the
>normal zone. How couldt I integrate these in the new view? And how could I
>avoid a change of one of the records I have changed manually for the new
>view?
>
>Is there a solution for this?
>
Not a clean one, as far as I know. You'd almost have to write a 
script/program to do a "diff" periodically to determine the 
difference(s) between one version of a zone and the next, in the "real" 
view, and then apply those diffs to the version of the zone you have in 
the "fake" view.

- Kevin




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