I ended up doing what a couple folks suggested, creating a zone for each host 
with each zone containing only the IP for that host as an A record.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 6:47 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: DNS-y

Doing forwarding may not disable access to thisclient.com's external addresses.
How does thisclient.com's own client resolve their external addresses? Perhaps 
these entries are in their internal DNS servers. If so, then forwarding to 
their internal DNS servers might just work. You need to ask them.

Definitively creating thisclient.com as a zone in your DNS is going to break 
resolution of their external addresses unless you also add entries for their 
external sites.

Cheers
Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 23 February 2012 1:18 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: DNS-y

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:43 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have a VPN tunnel to a client, and we've been asked to make some 
> DNS entries for Thisclient.com addresses and frankly, I don't know how 
> to do it or even how to Google for it. They gave us a list of IP's 
> that need to have entries.

  You can tell your DNS server to claim authority for whatever you want, and as 
long as your DNS clients are using that DNS server for all lookups, you'll get 
what you told it to say.  So claim authority for new zones, named 
<host1.thisclient.com>,  <host2.thisclient.com>, etc., and put in the A records 
at the origin level.  Any time their IP addresses change, they'll have to tell 
you.

> I could do DNS forwarding but that would disable us being able to get 
> to thisclient.com's external websites, wouldn't it?

  Yup.

  (Aside: This is yet another example of why split DNS is a bad idea.
Too bad for you, your client doesn't know that.)

-- Ben

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