Re: Forwarding to two servers

2010-08-10 Thread CLOSE Dave (DAE)
I asked: > My company has two internal name servers accessible to me. One (PUB) is > the usual Internet-facing server than can resolve most internal and all > public names. The other (PRIV) is a special purpose server that only > resolves names in a special private domain. If I list both servers in

Re: Forwarding to two servers

2010-08-10 Thread CLOSE Dave (DAE)
Sten Carlsen wrote: > I believe you could use forwarding to the internal server for each individual > name: > > zone "HOST1" { >type forward; >forwarders{ private.domain.server.IP; }; > } > > This should do the trick but not elegant, not easy. I would start hinting to > management that

Re: Forwarding to two servers

2010-08-09 Thread CLOSE Dave (DAE)
Based on suggestions here, I now have a named.conf file like this: options { ... }; logging { ... }; zone "." IN { type forward; forwarders { PUB; }; forward only; }; zone "HOST1" { type forward; forwarders { PRIV; }; }; zone "HOST2" { type forward; forwarders { PRIV; }; }; # PUB

Re: Forwarding to two servers

2010-08-06 Thread CLOSE Dave (DAE)
Joseph S D Yao wrote: > If you have two forwarders, as you listed, your server will try to > forward first to one and then to the other. If it gets any answer at > all from one - even an error answer - it will not try the other. So forwarding works exactly the same as listing both servers in re

Forwarding to two servers

2010-08-05 Thread CLOSE Dave (DAE)
My company has two internal name servers accessible to me. One (PUB) is the usual Internet-facing server than can resolve most internal and all public names. The other (PRIV) is a special purpose server that only resolves names in a special private domain. If I list both servers in resolv.conf,