From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 9 19:59:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AA14106564A for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 19:59:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@vfemail.net) Received: from vfemail.net (dotsevenfive.vfemail.net [69.11.239.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEBE88FC12 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 19:59:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 42831 invoked by uid 89); 9 Feb 2011 19:59:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO freequeue.vfemail.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Feb 2011 19:59:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 42740 invoked by uid 89); 9 Feb 2011 19:58:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO www-51-2.vfemail.net) (vfemail@172.16.100.51) by FreeQueue with SMTP; 9 Feb 2011 19:58:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 56348 invoked by uid 89); 9 Feb 2011 19:59:04 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.4.0 ppid: 56329, pid: 56333, t: 0.2162s scanners:none Received: from unknown (HELO Bacchus.vfemail.net) (cGV0ZXJAdmZlbWFpbC5uZXQ=@67.101.12.44) by 172.16.100.51 with ESMTPA; 9 Feb 2011 19:59:04 -0000 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:58:47 -0500 To: extractemailpeter@bankrupt.com From: peter@vfemail.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <20110209195921.5AA14106564A@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partial DNS tree X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:59:21 -0000 On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Bastien Semene wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This is not the preferred mailing list to ask this question, but I think > people here can easily answer. > > I've seen in the past that DNS servers can resolve some FQDNs while > forwarding (or caching) other resolutions of the same DN. > But I can't remember the word qualifying this technology, and had hard time > finding this on google. Can someone please point me to the correct direction > ? I think the term you're looking for is "split-horizon DNS". I second the recommendation to use dnsmasq for this. It's extremely easy to set up. But if you really want to do this with a "proper" DNS server, such as bind, googling on the above term will probably help. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" ------------------------------------------------- This message sent via VFEmail.net http://www.vfemail.net $14.95 Lifetime accounts! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas!