On Mon, 2013-09-16 at 09:31 +0200, Petr Spacek wrote: > You are right, the scenario described by me doesn't require views. > Please see > reply from James in another part of this thread - his setup has shared > host > name (internal = external) but different IP addresses for internal > and > external usage. > > The question is if DNS is the right layer to solve the problem. Yep. See below.
> Some oddities > like this could be solved on IP routing level: I.e. use > 'external'/public IP > address everywhere and route packets with this 'external IP' to the > right part > of the internal network. > > Solution on routing layer can be technically feasible, but it doesn't > mean > that it is politically acceptable. People usually don't want to touch > routing > unless absolutely necessary :-) FWIW, I completely agree, although I do not having a problem with the routing solution, in certain setups it can add much more complexity which may not be required or even possible to do. Eg: conntrackd setups could get hairy or impossible. Let's do this in DNS. James PS: If anyone wants to meet to talk about this, I'm at Linuxcon New Orleans this week if I can be of any help.
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