Re: PIX, DNS fixups and Zone Transfers

[Luca Berra <bluca () comedia it>]

On Mon, May 26, 2003 at 09:55:50PM +0200, Bruce Smith wrote:
> Thus arises our problem. Our DNS zones have one primary and 4 secondaries,
> three of which are on separate sites and continents. Now when they do a zone
> transfer of our zones, the mapped IP addresses are NOT changed in the zone,
> so looking up on those zones brings up the new IP address, not the old. That
> IP isn't visible on the 'Net. We hacked around the problem by giving each
> machine two names, eg dns1.domain.com and dns1r.domain.com. dns1.domain.com,
> the address known to the world at large, maps to the old IP.
> dns1r.domain.com is the new one. By some careful juggling of several crates
> of eggs, this is working, for the moment. However it is a precarious
> position to be in.
you don't state which DNS server you are using, but BIND version 9
supports views (you can answer using differeny db files depending on the
query source), which could be just what you need.

regards,
L.

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