[ale] Setting up BIND

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)]

How about a subdomain.

My desktop could be:

desktop.buford.linxdev.com


On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:26, Alan Dobkin wrote:
> --On Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:21 PM -0500 Chris Fowler 
> <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> 
> > Now that I have my domain registered and buford.linxdev.com pointing to
> > 66.23.198.2 I want to now configure BIND for all my machines on the
> > 192.168.1.X private.  How can I configure a file for linxdev.com so that
> > it does not get confused with the actual records at:
> 
> If you create a local zone for linxdev.com, then that will be considered
> authoritative for your machines, and they will never contact the actual
> public DNS servers for this domain.  So, you will need to duplicate the
> public entries (i.e. www, smtp, pop, buford, etc.) in your local zone,
> which will have to be updated whenever these IP addresses change.
> 
> Another way to do this is to create a fake private domain, such as
> linxdev.LAN.  That way, you will always know whether you are referencing
> your private/internal hosts or the public/external ones, and the actual
> public DNS servers will provide authoritative data for your public domain.
> 
> Alan