In article ,
"Chris Rizzo" wrote:

> I have begun the process of creating a split external/internal dns setup. I
> am using bind views so that internal users can see the full zone list, but
> external users only see the Internet routable addresses. It seems to be
> working except for one small issue....I have a subdomain that is delegated
> out to my load balancing devices, i.e. global.company.com - the load
> balancers are running bind, and are authoritative, for the global subdomain.
> When a user queries www.company.com, it is actually an alias to
> www.global.company.com. It looks like the only way that I can get this to
> work is to turn on recursion for the external view, but would rather not. Is
> there some way to do this that I'm missing??? I tried forwarders and stub
> zones but nothing seems to work....Thanks for any help....

Recursion and forwarders won't help because queries from external
nameservers will not have the Recursion Desired flag set.

I don't understand why delegation records in the external view don't
work for you.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Well, I have NS records in the zone for the external view, and I also have
the A records for these name servers, but still nothing.....
On 10/11/07, Barry Margolin wrote:
>
> In article ,
> "Chris Rizzo" wrote:
>
> > I have begun the process of creating a split external/internal dns
> setup. I
> > am using bind views so that internal users can see the full zone list,
> but
> > external users only see the Internet routable addresses. It seems to be
> > working except for one small issue....I have a subdomain that is
> delegated
> > out to my load balancing devices, i.e. global.company.com - the load
> > balancers are running bind, and are authoritative, for the global
> subdomain.
> > When a user queries www.company.com, it is actually an alias to
> > www.global.company.com. It looks like the only way that I can get this
> to
> > work is to turn on recursion for the external view, but would rather
> not. Is
> > there some way to do this that I'm missing??? I tried forwarders and
> stub
> > zones but nothing seems to work....Thanks for any help....
>
> Recursion and forwarders won't help because queries from external
> nameservers will not have the Recursion Desired flag set.
>
> I don't understand why delegation records in the external view don't
> work for you.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
> *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***
> *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
>
>
>