question about split DNS

[Barry Margolin]

In article <eaeggi$1038$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Jonathan Horne <freebsd at dfwlp.com> wrote:

> ive been reading this page trying to understand exactly how the configuration 
> works:
> 
> http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/arm93/Bv9ARM.ch04.html#id2549203
> 
> but its looking like in the end, i still have to run 2 seperate DNS servers.  
> is it possible to serve one zone file to internal hosts, while serving 
> another zone file to external hosts... but both zones are [example.com] and 
> both served from the same server?
> 
> ideally, i would like to accomplish both internal and external views from the 
> same server, if at all possible.

You can do it in a single server by using the "views" feature of BIND 9.  
It looks like that web page was never updated for BIND 9, so it still 
shows the way to do it in BIND 8, which requires separate servers.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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