problem with notifies to secondary when both servers have internal IPs

[Barry Margolin]

In article <garhln$26kr$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 "Michael Varre" <mvarre at gmail.com> wrote:

> I used to have my servers setup with views to handle internal queries and
> external queries respectively.  I've since gotten rid of the internal view,
> and setup to new internal ONLY bind server that works beautifually and
> answers only to internal devices.  no public access is available to this
> server and it primarily answers with private 172/192 addresses.
> All my servers are benind a firewall and are accessed from the outside using
> static nat routes.  so the public IP is on the FW, and all servers,
> including all bind servers have 172 addresses.
> 
> I'm now trying to button up my new ns1/ns2 bind servers that will be
> answering queries from the outside world.  answers from this box will be
> public IPs, not the 172/192's.
> 
> My problem is, because my nameserver name resolves to one ip from the
> outside (public ip), and another ip from the inside (private ip), how am i
> supposed to get notifies working as it is attempting to use the resolved
> name it already hosts....and in the case of the ns1/ns2 for public use, it
> resolves to the public address, for which it of course cannot communicate
> with because they are each on the same private lan.
> 
> I hope i explained this in a way that everyone can understand.
> 
> Thanks!

Use the also-notify option in named.conf to send the notifies to the 
private IP.

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