Search Again: Re: forwarder From: Men & Mice Support Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000 Time: 9:26:00 pm At 1:48 PM -0500 2/17/2000, Scott Tudor wrote: >I have two QDNS servers, one internal and one public (external). The >internal DNS has info for our internal 10.x.x.x network and the external >DNS has info for our Internet 208.x.x.x network. > >I would like to have the internal DNS ask the external DNS for info >about our external servers. For example, if userA on our internal >network wants DNS info for one of *our* Internet servers, is it possible >that we could configure our internal DNS to ask our external DNS? > >The problem is: both QDNS servers are using the same domainame.com. >Therefore when userA asks our internal QDNS about our Internet servers >it simply says: no such host. > >Is there a way to do this? Thanks in advance Oh, that's not a good thing. You shouldn't use the same domain name for both intranet and Internet. It always leads to problems. I assume you want to do this so that you don't have to enter each name in both places. I'm afraid you're pretty much out of luck. You could possibly achieve your stated goal using CNAME records, but then you'd have to maintain a second set of A records on your public servers, which would defeat the overall goal. I generally recommend that intranet domains end in something that will never conflict with an Internet domain, such as "domain.lan". So for example, instead of using "meridianmap.com" for your intranet domain, you'd use "meridianmap.lan". You can then use a search domain name in your TCP/IP settings so that you never have to type in your intranet domain name. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton cbuxton@menandmice.com Men & Mice http://www.menandmice.com Makers of: QuickDNS Pro

Messages In This Thread: forwarder by Scott Tudor on Feb 17, 2000 at 6:48:00 pm Re: forwarder by Men & Mice Support on Feb 17, 2000 at 9:26:00 pm