Re: Split DNS

Brad Knowles wrote:

>At 6:26 PM -0400 2005-04-08, Kevin Darcy wrote:
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>> BIND has no way to do that. You'll just have to maintain the common data
>> in parallel.
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> Actually, if there is common data, you can maintain that in a
>file separate from either of the zone files defined in the
>named.conf, and then "include" them from within the zone files. That
>way, only the different content is managed separately, and all the
>shared content is maintained in only one place.
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I stand corrected. The "shared include file" trick can be used to
duplicate the same data across nameserver instances or views, and thus
reduce the maintenance burden. I keep forgetting this trick, since we
use Dynamic Update for everything and therefore can't "include" zonefiles...

- Kevin