Steve. Thanks for the clarification and info. I am interested in your examples if you don't mind.
James On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:32, Cowles, Steve wrote: > James Pifer wrote: > > Steve, > > Sorry, a couple more questions. I've been trying to find complete > > examples of the named.conf on the net and haven't found any. The man > > pages don't seem to go into much detail. Not sure how to modify mine. > > > > Below is my current named.conf. Does the example you sent go above, > > below, or replace my current stuff? > > Replace. Or I guess you could surround what you have within a "view" > statement. But you would still need to create your other views. > > > The view for corporate, can I have it forward any request for pca.com > > to the corporate DNS server? > > Yes. per the man pages for named.conf... > > Forwarding can also be configured on a per-zone basis, allowing for the > global forwarding options to be overridden in a variety of ways. You can > set particular zones to use different forwarders, or have different > forward only/first behavior, or to not forward at all. See THE ZONE > STATEMENT section for more information. > > > Also, I have a domain obrien-pifer.com. Would I set up another .hosts > > file for the internal resolution and specify that on the file line? I > > can't really create another zone with the same name, right? > > Yes you can. With bind "views" you can load two zones with the same domain > name (as I showed in my example). The key is the zone files return different > IP addresses for the same hostname. i.e. > > /var/named/ext/db.mydomain.com > www IN A 204.203.202.201 > > /var/named/int/db.mydomain.com > www IN A 192.168.1.5 > > One zone is loaded from the external view, the other from the internal view. > The ACL's defined within the view dictate which answer is returned to the > client. > > > > > So, internally www.obrien-pifer.com would resolve to 192.168.1.5 while > > everywhere else it would resolve to the routable internet address. > > Thats correct. > > FWIW: I have some good named.conf and zone examples if your interested, but > we warned that my examples follow the Bind book format structure, not some > lame web interface format that creates a useless named.conf file. Drop me a > note if your interested. > > Steve Cowles > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
