[ale] another DNS question...

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Wed Oct 31 12:24:35 EST 2001


You need to set up the clients to have the primary server be the
internal nameserver. Then setup the internal nameserver to use the
external server for unknown hosts.

A previous ale'er did this on the list. I haven't located the message.
About 1-2 weeks ago...

On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 12:15, John Wells wrote:
> I'm trying to get a machine set up that has two NICs,
> one to internal network and one to external network. 
> I want to be able to use the internal net's DNS server
> to resolve internal DNS queries, and the external
> net's DNS server to resolve external queries.  The
> internal net's domain is testdomain.com.
> 
> So, if I set up /etc/resolv.conf to be:
> 
> search testdomain.com
> nameserver 198.153.233.8 ;internal 
> nameserver 38.2.3.4 ; external
> nameserver 38.2.3.5 ; external
> 
> Hosts resolve on the internal net but not on the
> external one.
> 
> If I set up /etc/resolv.conf to be:
> 
> search testdomain.com
> nameserver 38.2.3.4 ; external
> nameserver 38.2.3.5 ; external
> nameserver 198.153.233.8 ;internal 
> 
> then hosts resolve on the external (ex.
> www.slashdot.org) but not the internal.
> 
> Is there no way to have both resolve?  Will I have to
> change the internal server to provide information on
> external hosts?  I've tried a number of different
> configuration but can't seem to get one to work.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> John
> 
> 
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