Q: One host serving both internal and external nameservice, which view should match-clients for the local host?

Stewart Dean sdean at bard.edu
Mon Oct 25 18:54:27 UTC 2010


I have set up a nameserver as per pg 249 of DNS & Bind, 5th Ed.  The host is on 
two networks, serving the internal 10 based network as nsi at 10.5.0.5 with an 
internal view and the external network as nsx at 192.246.229.x with an external 
view.  Everything makes sense until I get to the match-clients definition. Using 
the example on 249, named will serve the internal addresses, and the external 
view match-clients { any; } will take everything else....including the local 
host 127.0.0.1.

That would seem to me to make it so the local host would be unable to resolve 
(for itself) internal addresses, forcing it to only be able to resolve external 
addresses for itself.

Is this as it should be?  Am I missing something?
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