Bind views allow you to have single names resolve to different IP's depending on "who" is doing the querying.  For instance: public users get one (public) IP when they go to www.website.com, while private users can get a private IP for the same name.  Thus, they always use the name regardless of where they are and it always works.

As I understood the problem, this would be a good solution.  Of course, as the OP said - "The problem is that the service registers our IP (external) address with a central server" is a bit confusing - sounds as if his problem is that the internal folks aren't being subject to the DNAT and therein lies his problem.  This would certainly be solved by public/private DNS views - but there are also ways to solve that wholly within shorewall by causing DNAT rules to be applied to everyone (I found that to be problematic under some circumstances).  If the problem is different, then bind views might not be a viable solution.

Cheers.

Vlado Peshov wrote:
On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Diego Rivera <[email protected]> wrote:
Also, you might want to look into Bind 9 and DNS Zones - that's how I solved my problem.  The external users see one IP address for a particular domain name - the public one -, and the internal users see another IP (private) for the same server.  

Little off topic...

Did you meant that by using bind views(internals and externals clients) you solved this issue?

Regards, Vlado
 

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