[ale] another DNS question...

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)]

You need to set up the clients to have the primary server be the
internal nameserver. Then setup the internal nameserver to use the
external server for unknown hosts.

A previous ale'er did this on the list. I haven't located the message.
About 1-2 weeks ago...

On Wed, 2001-10-31 at 12:15, John Wells wrote:
> I'm trying to get a machine set up that has two NICs,
> one to internal network and one to external network. 
> I want to be able to use the internal net's DNS server
> to resolve internal DNS queries, and the external
> net's DNS server to resolve external queries.  The
> internal net's domain is testdomain.com.
> 
> So, if I set up /etc/resolv.conf to be:
> 
> search testdomain.com
> nameserver 198.153.233.8 ;internal 
> nameserver 38.2.3.4 ; external
> nameserver 38.2.3.5 ; external
> 
> Hosts resolve on the internal net but not on the
> external one.
> 
> If I set up /etc/resolv.conf to be:
> 
> search testdomain.com
> nameserver 38.2.3.4 ; external
> nameserver 38.2.3.5 ; external
> nameserver 198.153.233.8 ;internal 
> 
> then hosts resolve on the external (ex.
> www.slashdot.org) but not the internal.
> 
> Is there no way to have both resolve?  Will I have to
> change the internal server to provide information on
> external hosts?  I've tried a number of different
> configuration but can't seem to get one to work.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> John
> 
> 
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