Multi homed servers and Bind9

Karl Auer kauer at biplane.com.au
Fri Aug 20 10:20:14 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 10:18 +0100, Julian Pilfold-Bagwell wrote:
> I have a multi-subnetted network and servers that have a presence on 
> each subnet, e.g. 4 NICs on in 192.168.0.0, 192.168.1.0, 2.0, 3.0 etc.
> 
> In the reverse tables I have can set up allow query statements to 
> control access but what happens on the forward lookups? I suspect that 
> the client will use the result that matches its own subnet but just want 
> to make sure before going on.

To get what you seem to want - each client sends DNS queries only to the
server address in its own subnet - you have to either manually configure
each client with the right nameserver address, or configure DHCP to send
different nameserver addresses for each subnet.

Regards, k.

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