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[Kevin Darcy]

Forrest Aldrich wrote:

>I do serve a couple of small zones, but my own zone is hosted elsewhere.
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>At 10:28 PM 9/26/2003, Kevin Darcy wrote:
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>>Forrest Aldrich wrote:
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>>>I'm creating a named.conf with views support.   It seems you must have all
>>>zones in a view.
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>>>My internal LAN is an RFC network, so when I go to mydomain.com, I want the
>>>view to indicate that RFC address, not the routable address on the external
>>>interface; however, my real DNS is served externally (ie: by another
>>>source) so I don't need inbound queries on those zones.
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>>>I suppose it's harmless to simply place a stub db.* file in the "external"
>>>view to get this working, but I wonder if I'm doing this correctly.
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>>If you're not serving anything to the Internet, why bother with views at
>>all? Who is going to see your "external" view?
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In any case, if no-one external is going to be querying your server for 
names in your zone, then it doesn't really matter how you define it in 
your external view, or even whether you define it there at all...

- Kevin