On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 11:27:04PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 18:22 +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> > * On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 08:21:42AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > > I have a domain that is has its primary at dyndns.org.  say example.com.  
> > > when 
> > > I am at home I would like my internal DNS server to service example.com 
> > > by 
> > > making a request to the proper NS servers.  But for 1 or 2 select names 
> > > ie say 
> > > mail.example.com I would like my internal DNS to return values that I 
> > > specify.
> 
> You are out of luck with the standard tools. Name servers pretty much
> treat all records within a zone similarly.
> 
> What you could do is to put those "select names" in their own zone, say
> srv.example.com. Then you can use views to give differing answers
> for the srv.example.com zone from inside addresses and from outside
> addresses. Queries for your example.com zone would pass through
> without drama.
> 
> Named does have a backends system, where you can do untold evil.
> I wouldn't recommend that approach though, since you could shoot
> yourself in the foot pretty readily.  But a quick look at the
> competiting software's backend arrangements would be worth the
> short Google.

I know the short set of names - that doesn't change, thankfully. What I can do, 
I presume, is just do a dig on the each name and build my own zone file and 
then edit it. not pretty but .... might get me over the line.

thanks

> 
> Best of luck, Glen
> 
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