[ale] another DNS question...

[Robert Heaven]

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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