Multiple DNS servers

[Kevin Darcy]

Sorry, you can't configure BIND to meet all of these requirements. The
*best* way, long term, is probably to set up subdomains and subzones.
Short of that, you could probably kludge some sort of
"synchronization" process which would grab the corporate version of the
domain, merge in your local entries and load the consolidated version
into your Netware servers. Another approach would be to convince
corporate to use Dynamic Update for all of their maintenance and to
authorize the remote locations to also update the same zone remotely via
Dynamic Update. Then your Netware boxes could just be simple slaves.
(This would of course violate your requirement that the corporate server
not resolve "remote" entries). I suspect a scheme like this wouldn't get
off the ground, given the political realities you hinted at...


- Kevin

rick wrote:

> I'm running several NetWare 5.1 servers and need DNS links to the main
> DNS server located elsewhere on our corporate WAN.
>
> Notes/Requirements:
>
> -- All locations have the same DNS domain: "private.bank.com".
>
> -- Entries/changes made to the corporate DNS server (some version of
> Linux) must always be available to all users at all locations.
>
> -- Entries/changes to the remote DNS servers (NetWare 5.1/SP1) need to
> be available to users in the remote locations.  (Remote locations need
> to resolve corporate DNS entries also.)  Corporate DNS server must not
> resolve entries on remote servers.
>
> -- Needs to work with Win95/98/NT/2K clients.
>
> -- Above all, corporate does not want to help.  Must not involve them
> at all... (or in their words, must not bother them at all).
>
> Anybody know the exact configuration I need on my NetWare servers?
> Seems that whatever I try works fine until corporate adds/removes a
> DNS entry... all my entries get wiped out and users can only resolve
> corporate entries.
>
> I may just need to either use Linux at each remote location, or, build
> up a Linux DNS server and experiment with the NetWare servers in a
> test environment.