how best to do? internal vs external

Jim Reid jim at rfc1035.com
Tue Jun 6 08:22:21 UTC 2000


>>>>> "Dana" == Dana Quinn <dana at enteract.com> writes:

    Dana> This works fine, actually.  Internal DNS is served by this
    Dana> machine in our corporate office, over our corporate WAN to
    Dana> the other offices.  Works fine.

    Dana> But now, our second largest office wants to run their own
    Dana> DNS server, which needs to have this internal information,
    Dana> but they can't transfer the zone files from this internal
    Dana> DNS server, because it's not authoritative for this zone.

Fix your internal name server. There will probably be errors in the
zone file for your internal domain name which mean that your server is
not authoritative for that domain. These will be reported in the name
server's logs: most likely illegal hostnames or syntax errors in the
zone file.



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