From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 17 22: 3:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3918837B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 22:03:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C04AC43E3B for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 22:03:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0234.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.192.234] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18Df0T-0003VM-00; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 22:03:38 -0800 Message-ID: <3DD8822C.1D337FDB@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 22:01:16 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John De Boskey Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Run two copies of named from rc.conf? References: <20021118041523.GA45159@BSDWins.Com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John De Boskey wrote: > It would be nice if rc.conf could start a 2nd copy > of named (split dns). Comments on the following simplistic > patch? Interior and exterior DNS is a useful case; however, there are multiple ways to set it up; in general, it's not possible to have interior authoritative DNS at the same time you have exterior authoritative DNS (this was a mistake we made on the InterJet, for a long time), without modifying the DNS server to forward requests for which it has incomplete information (e.g. the "PNS" draft RFC I wrote). See the files in: ftp://ftp.whistle.com/pub/terry/drafts/ for details. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message