Multiple Network Subnets within same Domain Name Zone

Gregory Hicks ghicks at cadence.com
Wed Jun 23 15:11:17 UTC 2004


> From: "Saunders, Shawn" <SSaunders at mednet.ucla.edu>
> To: "'BIND Users Mailing List'" <bind-users at isc.org>, "'bind9-users at isc.org'" 
<bind9-users at isc.org>
> Subject: Multiple Network Subnets within same Domain Name Zone
> Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 08:00:27 -0700
> 
> Is there any potential problems to the following scenario?
> 
> I am authoritative for a domain, say xyz.com that has some host addresses
> outside my firewall on public IP's.  But I must also, have the hosts, inside
> my firewall using Private Addresses 192.168.xxx.xxx within the domain
> xyz.com, because of some legacy software that would require a major rewrite
> to access these hosts, if we changed their naming structure.
> 
> I just find it odd, to have multiple networks, being resolved to the same
> domain, and if I do this, there is no real way to do the reverse zones for
> the domain, because it would entail having multiple reverse zones for the
> same domain, and is that allowed?

Shawn:

views...  Think views...

Where the IP address returned depends on the requesting IP address...

One view for the world at large and one for internal needs...

Regards,
Gregory Hicks

Ps - bind9-users as a list does not exist any longer...

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