How to look up a domain NOT through root hints?

Gabrie van Zanten gabrie-geen-spammeke at basvanzanten.com
Thu Feb 12 21:25:30 UTC 2004


Hi

Internally we have two dns domains, one called xx.com and one called 
xx.local. Each domain has its own administrators, they maintain their 
own dns and do their own lookups on the internet using root hints.

Ofcourse, the systems from the xx.com can't find the systems from 
xx.local, because they would try to lookup xx.local through a root hint.

What is the best way to tell the dns servers from xx.com that they can 
ask DNS server x.x.x.x from xx.local to resolve the xx.local names, 
instead of going to a root server.

And ofcourse, the whole thing is also vice versa.

If possible I would like to avoid having to replicate zones or records 
between the two.

Gabrie


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