Domain Dependant DNS

[Michael B Allen]

I have a small LAN at home with a few machines and a Linksys router hooked
up to a cable modem. One machine is running bind 8 with a standard set
of zone files and two forwarders to my ISPs DNS. Works great.

Now all of the sudden I'm using VPN to get onto the company Intranet but
I don't work too much when I'm home so I'd like to access all networks
at the same time so I can do a little work (very little) and then jump
over to the raw internet. Routing isn't too much of a problem. I have
a suitable set of masks to route traffic to the company WAN.

But I'm having trouble contriving a reasonable setup to handle
DNS. Currently I just copy in a different resolve.conf depending on what
I'm doing but that's pretty ugly.

So the question is; can I configure the name server on my LAN to use
different forwarders depending on the domain of the name being queried? Or
is there something I can do local to the machine doing the VPN?

In truth it would be ideal if the local machine's name service client
apparatus could be configured to use different DNS servers based on which
domain was being accessed but also try alternate servers if the primarys
do not immediately respond and then remember a cache of 1000 names or
so. But I realize that's probably wishing for too much. I would settle
for domain dependant DNS.

Thanks,
Mike