Re: [TCLUG:21021] dns mx question

[Ben Luey <lueyb@gridley.ACNS.Carleton.edu>]

The problem is that there isn't a master for hearing.org -- it is all fake
intranet. The hearingsociety.org which is real points to the wrong MX
record -- outside email is picked up by the isp and then gets put in an
email account that our server gets periodically with fetchmail, I want
local hearingsociety.org MX record to point to our local server, but
outside dns would point to my isp's server.

I hope that was somewhat clear

Thanks,

Ben



On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Adam Maloney wrote:

> You could try setting up your machine to be a slave for the zone.  It
> would still carry authorative information so it wouldn't have to do a
> lookup every time...you'd just have to do a lookup when Bind wanted to
> update the zone from the primary.
> 
> zone "hearing.org" {
> 	type slave;
> 	file "sec/hearing.org";
> 	masters {
> 		primary.dns.server
> 	};
> };
> 
> 
> 
> Adam Maloney
> Systems Administrator
> Sihope Communications
> 
> On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ben Luey wrote:
> 
> > We have a registered domain that we use for e-mail. I want e-mail send
> > from the intranet to go to the server and be processed without triggering
> > our internet link (dial on demand), but don't want to be a master dns for
> > the domain name since the web site and stuff has a real internet addresses
> > and is contorled by other people. I just want to have hearingsociety.org
> > have a local MX record and all other dns requests handled by the
> > forwarders.
> > 
> > I currently have in my domain.hosts:
> > 
> > @               IN SOA        hearing.org. server.hearing.org.  (
> >                               1997080600    ; serial number
> >                               10800         ; refresh rate (3 hours)
> >                               1800          ; retry (30 minutes)
> >                               1209600       ;  expire (2 weeks)
> >                               604800 )      ;  minium (1 week)
> >                 MX 5       server.hearing.org.
> >                 NS         server.hearing.org.
> > #                NS         hearing.org.
> > hearingsociety.org.    MX 3 server.hearing.org.
> > server          A          192.168.1.1
> > finance          A          192.168.1.211
> > 
> > giving hearingsociety.org a MX record; however, since in /etc/named.conf,
> > domain.hosts is only in the zone for hearing.org 
> > 
> > zone "hearing.org" {
> >         type master;
> >         file "domain.hosts";
> > };
> > 
> > This works, but when our internet access stopped, local mail would not get
> > delivered I think because the dns lookup somehow needed outside access to
> > resolve the MX on hearingsociety.org -- when I shut down named and added a
> > line to the /etc/hosts it fixed the problem, but that messes up website
> > dns lookups.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Ben
> > 
> > 
> > 
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