Re: [PLUG] DNS, ceding to another server

[Stephen Brown <sbrown@cubehost.net>]

Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> (And clearly, to head off comment, the public purple.com DNS can't
> talk about dog.purple.com, since dog has a 192.168 address...)

What I do is the same as jeff mentioned, have your internal boxes with 
unique names in the external domain. It doesn't matter that 
fungi.blinkylight.net is a 192.168 address since you can't get to it
except inside my network. But (www|ns|mx).blinkylight.net all properly 
resolve to a real external address. Things work naturally inside the 
network, and you can even set up a normal caching DNS server inside that 
will continue to server purple.com addresses if your net connection goes 
away.

Another option would be to use a subdomain (home.purple.com) for all of 
your in-house boxen, possibly even CNAME dog.purple.com to 
dog.house.purple.com

I messed around with the internal/external view of domains with bind 9 
but didn't find it worth the trouble for my setup.

steve

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