All...
Please accept my apologies for asking a BIND related question but I have
little knowledge in this area.
Our internal systems all use and belong to an internal BIND domain - lets
call it "my.domain". So if I have a system named "Hobie16" then its fully
qualified domain name is "hobie16.my.domain".
We also have a number of external publically visible domains - lets call one
"ext.domain" for example.
Currently my resolv.conf file looks like this:
domain my.domain
nameserver nn.nn.nn.nn
nameserver mm.mm.mm.mm
and this works just fine.
I have a node which needs to be able to resolve names in both the internal &
external domains. My "dns & bind" book says that, if I have a v4.9.3
resolver, I can replace the domain directive with the search directive. So
I now have:
search my.domain ext.domain
nameserver xx.xx.xx.xx
nameserver yy.yy.yy.yy
where these two IP addresses are of resolvers which can apparently resolv
external names.
The system I am testing this on is V4.0F+PK4. It can resolv names in my
my.domain just fine as before. But I cant resolv names in my ext.domain
domain. They fail with:
*** myresolver.my.domain can't find xxxxxx: Non-existent host/domain
Question: Do I have a v4.9.3 or later resolver?? How do I find out??
Question: what else am I doing wrong?
Thanking you in advance.
Tony Miller
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Received on Fri May 10 2002 - 15:20:53 NZST