bind9 internal/external + dhcp clients - wins

[Sten Carlsen]

Certainly doable. I have had this running for some years now. I also
have mail.myself.dk resolving to an internal address if I am on my
internal network and to an external address if I am outside my network.

I use bind with two views and dhcpd for internal addresses updating one
view.

Setup was almost automatic.

JeffH wrote:
> Sorry if this is drifting a little from the group topic – if you know
> of a better place to post this question, please let me know.
>
> I’m trying to configure a small DHCP internal network, connected to a
> router connected to the internet. I want it so that internally, all
> DHCP systems are able to resolve fully qualified names of other
> systems. Clients are all DHCP, server(s) is static IPv4. DNS resolves
> both internal client to client as well as client to internet. So a
> ping to machine4.myco.com resolves and a ping to www.yahoo.com
> resolves. No WINS server. Main server is an Archlinux box and has
> BIND9 on it, simple DHCP is currently handled by the router.
>
> 1)	Is this doable? I have already setup BIND9 to resolve to the
> internet (seems to work), but not sure how to do the internal piece.
> Also currently having the router do DHCP, but I’m guessing I’ll have
> to move that to the Linux box to make it all work.
> 2)	Assuming this is doable (I am assuming it is)
>    a.	Do I need DHCP served from the Archlinux box? What package has
> the needed features? Or can I get away with keeping it on the router?
>    b.	What do I need to do to get DNS working the way I want
> (resolving both internal and external names)? Where does it pull the
> information about the internal systems? My assumption here is that
> since DNS needs to get the names for the internal systems from
> somewhere other than a host file, it has to be sent to it from the
> client somehow – either by way of DHCP or maybe there is some initial
> DNS handshake it does (probably not… just taking a stab). I’m not
> looking for anyone to tell me what to specifically put in my config
> files, but more what exactly the specific terminology is for the setup
> I’m using (example: “Oh, you need a Caching DNS with forwards set, and
> a dynamic DHCP setup to point to the DNS. Along with BIND9  you could
> use FooBarDHCP to do the job, just make sure to set your DNS in the
> FooBarDHCP.conf file”).
> I realize that once I have that information I still have a lot of
> reading to do to get it setup right, but I just want to know enough to
> know what to read at this point.
>
> Thanks,
> -Jeff
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