Re: [gentoo-user] specifying DNS servers

[Bryan Whitehead]

This might work, but the "correct" way to do this is still a split DNS. 
Since this machine is on the border of private/public networks it should 
combine the two. Your DNS on this border box should be a slave to the 
internal master. These slave records should be restricted to being queries 
from the private addresses. The rest of the DNS records can be pulled from 
the internet/ISP's DNS.

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:38:48 -0400, Mark wrote:
>
>> I receive internet DNS information from the DSL connection, so no
>> problem there. But I want my internal connection to know about the
>> internal DNS servers as well.
>
> Assuming your internal DNS servers give an almost instant response (they
> should do on a small LAN), you can put all the servers
> in /etc/resolve.conf, with the internal ones at the top. Then set your
> DHCP options in /etc/conf.d/net to not overwrite /etc/resolv.conf.
>
> Now all you queries should go to the internal servers first. If they
> don't have (and won't forward and cache) external DNS information, the
> resolver will try the next server, the ISP one.
>
> If your internal servers are also connected to the Internet, you may not
> even need an external server.
>
>> Given all of that, which of the above suggestions is my best bet?
>
> There's nothing above, you top-posted :(
>
>
>

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