cache-only with both external and internal dns...

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Sat Dec 3 03:24:57 UTC 2005


In article <dmo4jj$2guk$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Ricardo M. Stella" <stella at rider.edu> wrote:

> A quick question...
> 
> We have separate internal and external DNS servers.
> 
> We need to set up a cache only DNS server, but when trying to to this
> (used RH RPM for it) we are hitting the external DNS servers when
> querrying internal records.
> 
> I know I could simply set them up instead as a secondary, but would there
> be a way otherwise ?
> 
> Seems like when I hit any host in mydomain.xxx, it goes out to the root
> servers, then comes back.

Configure a forwarding zone:

zone "mydomain.xxx" {
  type forward;
  forwarders { <addr of internal server>; };
};

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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