Can't see internal view on bind server

[Kevin Darcy]

Simon Gao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've set up views on a bind 8.3.2 server. To help zone transfers to 
> slave servers, I configured two network interfaces.
>
> eth0		external view
> eth0:1		internal view
>
> There is no problem resolving external view from the server. But 
> resolving internal view always comes up nothing. This is correct result. 
> However, I would like to resolve from eth0:1 on the server so I can 
> resolve internal records. Is there a way to do it?
>
>   
In BIND 8, you'd need to run separate instances of named, each with a 
different "listen-on", pointing to different interfaces, e.g. one 
instance listening on eth0 and another instance listening on eth0:1, and 
optionally differing "pid-file" and/or logging parameters, to prevent 
them from interfering with each other.

If you were to upgrade to BIND 9, then you could use the "view" feature 
of that version, which would allow you to accommodate the different 
views within a single named instance. This eliminates the 
overhead/complexity of running multiple processes, pid-file conflicts, 
etc. and is generally a cleaner solution.

Note that regardless of whether you go with BIND 8's multiple-instance 
approach, or BIND 9's "view" approach, you can share zone data that is 
common between views/instances, by $INCLUDE'ing files that have the 
common data within them. You still have to reload/refresh/restart 
separately however, whenever that common data changes.

                                                                         
                              - Kevin