Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2001 14:37:15 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Simon J Mudd <sjmudd@pobox.com> Subject: Re: /etc/hosts vs. DNS for local-only machines Message-ID: <20011215143715.B5071@localhost> In-Reply-To: <01b401c184a0$63bf74d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>; from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com on Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 02:08:14PM %2B0100 References: <018701c18488$24f3a310$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <86pu5i2dll.fsf@unicorn.ea4els.ampr.org> <01b401c184a0$63bf74d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 02:08:14PM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > My situation is a little more bizarre in that I want the local hostnames to > be part of my external domain (atkielski.com). Additionally, some of my > local hostnames duplicate external names but must point to a different > address (e.g., freebie.atkielski.com, the hostname of my FreeBSD box, points > to its local LAN address on my nameserver, but points to my external IP > address on the external nameserver that is authoritative for the domain as > seen by the rest of the world). > > What I've done thus far is set up my own nameserver as the authoritative > server for my external domain (even though it's not), and then define > everything in my own zone files. Since no server queries my server from the > outside, and since both of my own machines query my server first, this > should work, and it appears to work okay. The DNS lookups are extremely > fast once an address is in cache, compared to the slowness of my ISP's > nameservers. Sounds like you've done everything right -- the internal server only answers queries from other internal hosts, so it can claim whatever it wants and the rest of the world won't care. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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