Split DNS with BIND 8 with one server?

[William Stacey [MVP]]

The socket needs to be unique - not the port.  Each IP can listen on the
same port with no conflict.

--
William Stacey, MCSE
Windows Server MVP



"SpitsOnSpammers" <spammerspitter at aol.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> >
> >I think what is being suggest is that you run two instances (servers) of
> >bind on the same physical systems.
>
> I'm not quite sure I follow you.  If both instances of BIND are running on
one
> physical host, don't the "listen-on" ports (as described on page 298 of
the 4th
> Edition of "DNS & BIND" by Albnitz and Liu) also have to be changed for
one of
> the instances since, regardless of IP, once the request comes into the
host,
> the two named instances would be fighting for the same port?   And if the
> external named instance were listening on the standard port 53 while the
> internal named instance were listening on port abc, where abc is some
oddball
> port, won't all internal application programs which require DNS services
have
> to be changed to send requests to port abc (a whole new can of worms since
some
> application programs might be hardwired to send requests to port 53)?  Or
am I
> missing something here?
>
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