2 dns records for same server

[John Wingenbach]

Assuming your architecture is:

2 DNS servers which answers to external queries (public facing)
1 DNS server which only answers to internal queries (internal facing)
All internal clients configured to query the internal facing DNS server
for resolution.

Then, simply place your domain in both the external and internal
servers but having the internal one resolve with a zone file which maps
to internal IPs instead of the external IPs.

On the other hand, if you don't want to maintain the domain in both
places, then your best bet is to configure your clients to use a
searchlist of the form:  internal.<DOMAIN> <DOMAIN>

Then, you only have the internal.<DOMAIN> zone on your internal facing
server and it only houses names which should override the normal
domain's entries.

Your clients in this case would not use a fully qualified domain name.
Instead they would just use the hostname.

--John

On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 08:49:58 -0400
Dwayne Hottinger <dhottinger at harrisonburg.k12.va.us> wrote:

> I need to have 2 seperate dns records for the same servername.
> Essentially when inside my network (10.)  I need it to resolve to a
> 10. ip address. When outside it needs to resolve to my public ip.
> Everything Ive done so far with my dns records has returned 2 ip's.
> In otherwords when doing a host servername or nslookup servername I
> get both the external and internal ip's of the server.  This seems to
> be causing issues with the applicatons on the server.  Some computers
> inside my network are trying to connect to the public ip (which is
> being natted from my firewall), those that are connecting are
> extremely slow.  The slowness leads me to believe that they are first
> trying the public ip before hitting the private.
> 
> My dns is setup with a dns server inside my network (serving the 10)
> and 2 dns servers for my public ip's.    My lan is setup that each of
> my sites (schools) are in a different dns zone.  What I want to
> happen is the url or name of the server to be the same regardless of
> where the user is either inside or outside my network.
> 
> So far I have tried setting up a seperate zone file for my internal
> dns and adding the entry to my external like I normally do.  This is
> what resolves with 2 ip's.   Is there anyway to get my dns servers to
> do this?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> ddh
> 
>