[ale] another DNS question...

[John Wells]

Ok.  That's what I was afraid of.  

Actually, I think I asked that last
question...however, I've been down such a path since
then I wanted to make sure I was very clear on what I
was asking.

I appreciate your help.

John


--- "James P. Kinney III"
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> 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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