Someone elses DNS on my DNS Server

Joseph S D Yao jsdy at cospo.osis.gov
Wed Dec 27 19:39:20 UTC 2000


On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 06:02:05PM -0500, root wrote:
> I have been playing around with Bind 8.2.2 on RedHat 7.0, and I will be
> upgrading it soon.  
> 
> Problem:  My company dial-up ISP only allows IPs from their dial-ups to
> use their SMTP server.  We have a different ISP for our T1.  I don't
> want my people to have to keep changing their SMTP settings in their
> clients.  How do I setup my DNS server so that SMTP.ISP1.COM goes to my
> SMTP server, but that the rest of ISP1s DNS<=>IP stays the same?  I
> thought adding an entry to my /etc/hosts would solve the problem, but
> that only worked for the local machine.  

Alternate approach: Netscape Communicator can have different profiles
for when you are connected via dial and via network card.  Messenger is
the e-mail program in the Communicator suite.

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