Re: Cable modems and split DNS

[Joseph S D Yao <jsdy () cospo osis gov>]

>       Anyway back to my question.  I want to set up my split brain DNS to
> resolve from multiple internal hosts.  I'm running Solaris 2.6 on the
> external view DNS server.  I saw on Marcus' website a paper
> http://www.clark.net/pub/mjr/pubs/dns/index.htm where he suggests patching a
> bunch of stuff and then being able to use the syntax:
>
> domain v-one.com
> nameserver "whumpus.v-one.com" 206.205.74.132
> nameserver "74.205.206.in-addr.arpa" 206.205.74.132
> nameserver "v-one.com" 198.69.135.6
> nameserver "135.69.198.in-addr.arpa" 198.69.135.6
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
>
>       Which is what I want to do.  But how do I do it on my Solaris box?
> Or has anyone else done anything similar and how?

Marcus' patch was for an old BIND 4.  BIND 8 systems can do this kind
of thing by running multiple copies of 'named' with different config-
urations, and instructing each one to only listen to a specific network
interface.  BIND 9 [out mid-2000] will have something called "views".

Cf. www.isc.org.

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Joe Yao                         jsdy () cospo osis gov - Joseph S. D. Yao
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