[ale] another DNS question...

[John Wells]

Well, there's no real external domain here.  I just
want to be able to look up sites like www.slashdot.org
or www.cnn.com and also look up partial internal
hostnames like mytestbox (or
mytestbox.mytestdomain.com).

Thanks,
John

--- Robert Heaven <robertheaven at mediaone.net> wrote:
> did you try:
> 
>     search  testdomain.com  externaldomain.com
> 
> 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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