Re: Configuration confusion

I don't think there would be any point to doing that. Would anyone be
resolving names via the external view? If not, then it's a waste of time
to have multiple views.

Sure, with or without views, you could maintain an internal version of
your main domain on your nameserver, that would contain a superset of
what is hosted on your ISP's nameservers, i.e. all of the internal
entries in addition to the external ones. Basically you'd have parallel
instances of the same zone which you'd have to keep in sync with each
other. Sorry for not mentioning that option previously. Using a
subdomain is somewhat more efficient than the "split namespace"
approach, because it doesn't require double maintenance of the external
entries. One has to weigh the aesthetics of using relatively short,
consistent domain names for both internal and external resources, versus
the efficiency of avoiding or not avoiding double-maintenance.

- Kevin

HuMPie wrote:

>Hi,
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>It is posible to host the same domains on your internal dns server as
>your ISP host it external by using view (look in the Admin Refs for more
>details) then you can have the same (sub)domain as your ISP.
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>Best Regards,
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>HuMPie @ Grunn.Org
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>Disclamer:
>All you do with the suggestion in this mail is you responsibillity even
>if your system will crash :)
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: bind-users-bounce@isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce@isc.org] On
>Behalf Of Kevin Darcy
>Sent: dinsdag 3 februari 2004 0:08
>To: bind-users@isc.org
>Subject: Re: Configuration confusion
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>Daniel Hogan wrote:
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>>HuMPie <humpie <at> grunn.org> writes:
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>>>Why don't you install a caching named server <at> home so you don't
>>>need the ISP named server anymore and you can query the request by
>>>your own...
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>>Well, first of all, this isn't for home....this is for the school
>>system in which I am employed at. :-)
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>>I'm looking at caching the information on the ISP's server, but also
>>adding data only to our server (in the same domain) that only applies
>>to our office and schools. This is what I'm confused about on how to
>>do IF it is even possible.
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>Yes, this is possible, but only if one adopts a very technical
>definition of the term "domain", one that is recursive and also applies
>to all subdomains as well. If your ISP hosts, for example, the
>"richland.k12.la.us" zone, then you could define a zone on your internal
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>server(s) for a subdomain of that, e.g. "internal.richland.k12.la.us",
>and add whatever entries you want to it, which would not necessarily be
>visible to the outside world (unless you wanted it to be). What you
>can't do, though, is add entries in exactly the same subdomain as what
>is hosted externally, and that's probably what you were looking to do...
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>- Kevin
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