Having re-read my original reply I'm fairly impressed at how useless it was.
Once I re-read your original post I engaged in several 'head-slapping'
moments...
Sorry for the waste of bandwidth... Think I'll go back to lurking for
now....
-----Original Message-----
From: Colin McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 14:20
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [scottish] DNS quandry
At 12:48 08/05/01 +0100, John Taylor wrote:
>You could run BIND in a split-brain configuration with two different BIND
>processes each bound to a different interface ??
>
I don't really need to provide DNS to the internet - in fact on my real
network incoming connections from the internet are blocked. The ISP is
publishing the real address which is the only one accessible from 'outside'.
>>That leaves the option of telling the local DNS that server.mynet.com is
>>really at 10.1.1.86, but what happens when a program tries to check the
>>name of 196.169.10.2 ? Obviously, my DNS doesn't know - if it goes away
and
>>checks on the internet, it will find server.mynet.com - but it already
>>knows that server.mynet.com is 10.1.1.86.....
>>
>>So I suppose my question is, how does Bind cope with hosts which have
>>multiple addresses?
I suppose the easiest thing to do would be to test it myself and see. At
the moment though it doesn't quite come within the bounds of our current
Standard Operating Practices: FPQB (Fire fighting, panicing, quick fixes
and bodges).
Maybe I'll schedule a test for the next time I do a disaster recovery test
out at Sysnstar Livingstone.
>Incidentally, the 192.168.10.2 address assigned by your ISP isn't a 'REAL'
Erm, OK. I admit it - trying for security through obscurity: In case there
were any script kiddies bearing a grudge who don't know how to read the
headers in an Email, I didn't put in the real 'REAL' address. And I have
gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for you pesky kids! (Colin takes
short break from reality again).
I guess I should probably RTFM on Bind.
Colin
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