Finally Converting From Bind 8 -> Bind 9

Tim Daneliuk tundra at tundraware.com
Sat Jul 7 07:15:46 UTC 2007


Josh Paetzel wrote:
> On Monday 02 July 2007 16:48, Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>> I am (ever so) slowly moving my domain from FBSD 4.x to 6.2.  I am now
>> at the point where I need to convert my Bind 8 configuration to Bind 9.
>> In so doing, I like to finally separate my internal (non-routable) hosts
>> so that their names never resolve outside the private network, and
>> expose only the public facing hosts to the world via DNS.  I'd also
>> like to (finally) associate names with dhcpd-provided addresses
>> so both forwards & reverses work inside the private network.
>>
>> Could some kind soul please point me to a good HOWTO on this migration and
>> reconfiguration?  I am DAGSing as I write this, but so far have not
>> found what I want.
>>
>> TIA,
> 
> The first part of what you want is easy. 
> In named.conf you'll have something like...
> 
> acl private-hosts { 192.168.1.0/24; 192.168.2.0/24; };
> 
> view "internal" {
>     match-clients { "private-hosts"; };
>     zone "example.org" {
>         type master;
>         file "master/db.internal.example.org";
>     };
> };
> 
> view "external" {
>     match-clients { any; };
>     zone "example.org" {
>         type master;
>         file "master/db.example.org";
>     };
> };
> 
> Now you have two separate zonefiles, one which is consulted when someone from 
> 192.168.1.0/24 or 192.168.2.0/24 makes a query and one that is consulted when 
> anyone else makes a query.
> 
> HTH

That helped immensely and made this part of the problem trivial to implement.  Thanks!

Now I just have to learn how to have dhcpd update named with the latest
lease information...

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