Can Bind forward requests from within an authoritative domain?

[Dawn Connelly]

One work around would be to put the records you want visible to both the
internal and the external file in a specific file than use and INCLUDE
statement referencing that file in both the internal and external zone file.
That's the work around I used anyway.
On 4/13/07, Eric B. <ebenze at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Maybe I am going about this the wrong way, so any help/advice you can give
> me would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I currently have an external DNS with all my typical DNS entires (mail,
> www,
> ftp, etc...) for my domain (ex: domain.com).  I am now in the process of
> setting up an internal DNS for all my internal machines (we've been
> connection to machines using IPs until now). What I would ideally like to
> do
> is create my internal dns in such a way that if it receives a request for
> a
> name that it can't resolve, that it would query the external dns for the
> hostname.
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> So for instance, if my domain is domain.com, my external dns would
> resolve:
> ftp.domain.com, mail.domain.com, www.domain.com.
> My internal dns would resolve my internal machine names:
> chocolate.domain.com, vanilla.domain.com, rockyroad.domain.com
> I would rather not have to duplicate all the entries from the external dns
> onto the internal dns, but would like to be able to query the internal DNS
> for ftp.domain.com and have it resolved.
>
> Is something like this possible?  I've tried playing around with the
> forward
> & recursive options, but can't seem to get it to work.  I set the internal
> dns as type master for domain.com, so I am assuming that it won't
> recurse/forward any missing requests to other machines if it fails.
>
> Am I on the wrong track?  Is there a way to get this to work?
>
> Thanks for any advice!
>
> Eric
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