Re: Different results for the same lookup

The big downside of "view"s, of course, being that you need to maintain
all of your DNS in parallel.

In many cases, "view"s are overkill. Intelligently-implemented sortlists
are sometimes a more maintainable alternative (although they require
close co-ordination too).


- Kevin
Kyle Gordon wrote:

>Chances are you're after the lovely feature called 'views' in Bind9. A good
>writeup can be found here - http://sysadmin.oreilly.com/news/views_0501.html
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>Kyle
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>On Monday 07 March 2005 05:01, Trigge, Graham wrote:
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>>Guys and gals,
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>>I have a dilema that I am hoping someone has had in the past and can
>>offer some assistance. I have a need to setup my DNS structure so that
>>the results from a DNS lookup will differ depending on where the user is
>>located on the network. For example, if a user in Network A requests
>>abc.net.au (internal), the returned value is different to that of user B
>>in Network B also requesting acb.net.au from the same DNS
>>infrastructure.
>>Regards,
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>>---------------------------------
>>Graham Trigge
>>Telstra Australia
>>IT Technical Specialist
>>Messaging Support, Northern Region
>>W +61 2 9201 9577
>>M +61 409 654 434
>>
>>"Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana"
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