Re: Split DNS



Thanks Todd, I will check it out ...

jON

"Jon Rowlan" <jon.rowlan@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> We hold mail for a number of organisations and host a load of www sites
> for other Companies.
>
> We use split DNS so that internally, the DNS lookups resolve to local
> addresses and that externally, our Internet authorative DNS server can
> give outside addresses when requested.
>
> This is becoming a nightmare to manage. Any small change requires changing
> details on 2 servers and then theres the chance that something will go
> wrong, I am also concerned at what we would do if we lost DNS details ...
>
> Is there a tool that I can use to help script our DNS setup?
>
> It would be nice to create one great script that contains all the IP
> settings and then be able to propagate that out to any/all DNS servers and
> change IP for inside or outside as appropriate, this could also act as a
> backup script for reproducing DNS if our server were to fail.
>
> Alternatively is there some way to make one DNS server cascade from
> another (perhaps by specifiying a remote DNS server a SOA) a bit like a
> HOSTS table entry that will override a DNS table (I am beginning to think
> that this HOSTS Table override is a Microsoft thing as it does not
> override in Linux)
>
> jON
>
>


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