[buug] DNS help: tricking my network

Ian Zimmerman itz at speakeasy.org
Mon Sep 9 16:36:03 PDT 2002


Brian> Can I set up the DNS server on my BSD box so that if it
Brian> receives requests for domains that it hosts from the internal
Brian> network it will give a different answer than requests from
Brian> outside the private network?

Not that I know, with BIND 8.

You could run a second nameserver only for internal use.
Or maybe just add the relevant domainnames to your /etc/hosts, and
configure nsswitch to consult /etc/hosts before DNS.

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