/etc/resolv.conf with 3 nameservers

[Alex Zbyslaw]

guru at Sisis.de wrote:

>El día Monday, April 10, 2006 a las 04:07:34PM +0100, Alex Zbyslaw escribió:
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>>There's nothing to stop you configuring that local nameserver to use 
>>your two "backups" for names that it cannot resolve.
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>>You could then leave the two backups in /etc/resolv.conf but if your 
>>local nameserver is authoritative for your local domain, then you 
>>probably want to know if it goes away, and those backups won't be able 
>>to look up names in your local domain.
>>
>>I'm making some assumptions about why you set things up this way in the 
>>first place, and I may be wrong, but there's too little info in your 
>>post to give definitive suggestions.
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>The anderlying problem is that we are three companies, now connected
>through VPN tunnels. Each company runs it's own DNS server internaly and
>without publicating all its names to Internet. The three DNS are
>10.0.1.201 (mine one), xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy. 
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>Any idea? Yes, in the future we will unify the whole zone, but this is
>not a short term option...
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Presumably all three ranges have distinct domain names  E.g. company1.de 
company2.de company3.de

I am no expert of DNS, but isn't all you need for each "company" to run 
nameservers which are slaves (secondaries) for the other 2 as well as 
master of their own?  So the nameserver at company1 is master for 
company1.de and is a slave for company2.de and company3.de etc.

Of course, you might want some redundancy in that scenario, with each 
company running DNS on another server as well, and that one being a 
slave for all 3 domains.

If you don't know enough to do that, I strongly recommend getting the 
latest edition of O'Reilly "DNS and BIND"; and you should find BIND doc 
on your FreeBSD system starting in /usr/share/doc/bind9/arm/Bv9ARM.html.

Best,

--Alex