Firewall, split dns and the forwarders directive
Palano, Joseph
Joseph.Palano at Fmr.COM
Thu Jul 1 18:57:04 UTC 1999
Barry,
What you have said would make sense logically but I don't think it
agrees with page 385-386 of the "DNS&BIND" v3. Could you please expand or
give me a reference. This issue has been a hot topic for me and the rest of
the DNS "crew". Thanks.
Joe Palano
UNIX Sys Admin
Fidelity Investments
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barry Margolin [SMTP:barmar at bbnplanet.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 25, 1999 5:45 PM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.uu.net
> Subject: Re: Firewall, split dns and the forwarders directive
>
> In article <01JCTMLXT6RM000C41 at ACAD.DRAKE.EDU>,
> George W. Miller <GM0551S at ACAD.DRAKE.EDU> wrote:
> >There is a host, called charlie.drake.edu that sits out on the dmz. My
> question
> >is this: will the interior server forward to the exterior server a
> question
> >about charlie.drake.edu, even though it has the same domain name as the
> >interior network? Thus far, the only way I can get resolution for
> queries
> >concerning charlie is if I place an entry in the interior server host
> file.
>
> If a server is authoritative (master or slave) for a zone then it never
> forwards queries for a name in that zone.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
> GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA
> *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to
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