Can Bind forward requests from within an authoritative domain?

[Jon Reynolds]

Eric B. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Maybe I am going about this the wrong way, so any help/advice you can give 
> me would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I currently have an external DNS with all my typical DNS entires (mail, www, 
> ftp, etc...) for my domain (ex: domain.com).  I am now in the process of 
> setting up an internal DNS for all my internal machines (we've been 
> connection to machines using IPs until now). What I would ideally like to do 
> is create my internal dns in such a way that if it receives a request for a 
> name that it can't resolve, that it would query the external dns for the 
> hostname.
> 
> So for instance, if my domain is domain.com, my external dns would resolve: 
> ftp.domain.com, mail.domain.com, www.domain.com.
> My internal dns would resolve my internal machine names: 
> chocolate.domain.com, vanilla.domain.com, rockyroad.domain.com
> I would rather not have to duplicate all the entries from the external dns 
> onto the internal dns, but would like to be able to query the internal DNS 
> for ftp.domain.com and have it resolved.
> 
> Is something like this possible?  I've tried playing around with the forward 
> & recursive options, but can't seem to get it to work.  I set the internal 
> dns as type master for domain.com, so I am assuming that it won't 
> recurse/forward any missing requests to other machines if it fails.
> 
> Am I on the wrong track?  Is there a way to get this to work?
> 
> Thanks for any advice!
> 
> Eric


You might want to check out 'views'. This allows you to create one DNS 
server with an internal and external "view".

Hope that helps,

Jon