[CentOS] Split dns issues

Sun Aug 2 19:52:14 UTC 2009
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Bill Campbell
> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2009 15:20
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Split dns issues
> 
> On Sun, Aug 02, 2009, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> >We have internal DNS servers that will override the A record 
> for selected hosts.
> >Example mail.pdinc.us will have a different internal ip than 
> external. 
> >This has always been a fine way to handle it as the zone 
> files are for 
> >that specific host, and there have never been subdomains before.
> >
> >Now we want to just override the MX records for pdinc.us 
> without having 
> >to merge or manage all the records for every entry/subdoamin in the 
> >zone file for pdinc.us.
> >
> >Any ideas/questions?
> 
> We have been doing this with djbdns for years.  The tinydns 
> data files permit suffixes (suffices?) based on the querying 
> IP address to return information specific to that IP range.  
> That is a request for support at example.com from an ip in 
> 192.168.0.0/16 may return the private LAN address while one 
> from the outside world the public IP, perhaps on a different server.

Sounds like what we could use, but we are deeply entrenched in bind. Secondly is
it available from the upstream provider?

> 
> Bill
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