Bind 9 ext and int zone

[Barry Margolin]

In article <duposc$2d1$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Nick Allum" <Nick.Allum at rci.rogers.com> wrote:

> So I make myself authorative for the subdomain only and the root domain
> will be looked up externally?
> 
> Example
> 
> Yellow.com is an external domain but we setup the subdomain
> dev.yellow.com internally. So are are you saying that when a look up is
> made for dev.yellow.com it will find it internally first and that if
> they look up say www.yellow.com it will know to go externally right
> away.

Of course.  Since it's not authoritative for yellow.com, it will recurse 
for anything.yellow.com except dev.yellow.com.

I'm sure you already know that if you make your server authoritative for 
COMPANY.COM it will go externally to look up COM.  What's the difference?

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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