“This tutorial shows you how to configure BIND9 DNS server [.pdf version available] to serve an internal network and an external network at the same time with different set of information. To accomplish that goal, a new feature of BIND9 called view is used. As a tutorial it’ll walk you through the whole set up, but initial knowledge of BIND and DNS is required, there are plenty of documents that cover that information on the Internet.”
To give people a tutorial on how to use views in their BIND server is ofcourse always a good idea, but to use the term “new feature” is perhaps a bit too much…
This “new feature” was present since the first release of BIND9, which I started using back somewhere in the second half of 2000 for exactly this feature.
Edited 2006-03-22 18:21
This “new feature” was present since the first release of BIND9, which I started using back somewhere in the second half of 2000 for exactly this feature.
Yeah, and even before that you were able to either spawn two deamons with two config files or just specify two zones (internal and external) with two different files, but each zone binded to different network interfaces. I’ve been doing that in 90’s.
Although I agree, it is always nice to have HOWTO’s for new admins. I learned everything from them when I was starting using linux.
Tutorials are always good, few days ago i was looking for such think and after too much search in google i found how to use that feature.
Is it possible to make bind decide what data to serve by interface instead of by IP address? i.e. serve internal data only on the internal NIC, and public data on the external NIC?