Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 11:22:17 -0800 From: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> To: Bastien Semene <bsemene@cyanide-studio.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Partial DNS tree Message-ID: <AANLkTi=w58zU3LVqzMA5Y%2BwKY-WFJJuOo1Uq_PmgzXYh@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4D5254AB.5030408@cyanide-studio.com> References: <4D5254AB.5030408@cyanide-studio.com>
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On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Bastien Semene <bsemene@cyanide-studio.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > This is not the preferred mailing list to ask this question, but I think > people here can easily answer. > > I've seen in the past that DNS servers can resolve some FQDNs while > forwarding (or caching) other resolutions of the same DN. > But I can't remember the word qualifying this technology, and had hard time > finding this on google. Can someone please point me to the correct direction > ? I think the term you're looking for is "split-horizon DNS". I second the recommendation to use dnsmasq for this. It's extremely easy to set up. But if you really want to do this with a "proper" DNS server, such as bind, googling on the above term will probably help.
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