Sequential/Round Robin DNS Resolving

Mark Damrose mdamrose at elgin.cc.il.us
Wed May 22 18:33:22 UTC 2002


"Stan Fry" <sdfry at mts.net> wrote in message
news:acgli0$cck0$1 at isrv4.isc.org...
>
> I have searched for a bit and cannot find/see what I am looking for,
> so I will throw the question out for all to see.
>
> I am on a network within a network.
>
> Internet <-FW-> NetworkOne <-FW-> NetworkTwo (Me)
>
> I have access to the DNS server (192.168.0.10) on the Internet.
> I have access to the DNS server (10.0.0.20) on NetworkOne.
>
> The DNS server on NetworkOne is required to resolve the names of
> several servers on NetworkOne, that the Internet does not know about.
> Unfortunately the admins on NetworkOne don't want me using their DNS
> server as my primary (overloaded already without adding my stuff).
> But if I set the primary DNS server on a client as 192.168.0.10 and
> the secondary as 10.0.0.20, the client cannot resolve www.networkone
>
> I have tried setting up a DNS caching server, as an intermediary but
> have had no luck in discovering how (if it is indeed possible) to tell
> the server that if it cannot resolve www.networkone on one DNS server,
> try the other.
>
> "You can't do that" would be a depressing but acceptable reponse,
> because at least I'll stop killing myself.

zone "network1" in {
  type forward;
  forward only;
  forwarders { 10.0.0.20; };
};


>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Stan
>




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