Private zone and BIND search order

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9su2d8$6hr at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Sly <sly at sly.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have a server with BIND 8.2.3 who manage all the zone of the company and
>everything work fine.
>
>A month ago, our oracle guys asked us to create a private zone containing
>all of the oracle server of the company. This way they don't need to manage
>their oracle communications files on each oracle client, they just ask the
>DNS server for the ip address.
>
>So I created the zone, configure windows and oracle for the new connection
>protocol and it worked except for 1 server.
>
>All of the oracle server have dot naming schema (xxx.yyy.zz) and my problem
>is that one server have an extension existing on the internet (yyy.zz) so
>when we ping the server we don't get the right ip address, instead of
>looking in the zone file, it looks on the internet first.
>
>Since I can't change the server name, my question is:
>
>Can we set the search order for BIND, make it look at the zone file first?

If a server is authoritative for a zone, it always uses what's in the zone
file, and never goes out to the Internet.  So I don't think you're
explaining the problem clearly, because it shouldn't be a problem.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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