Re: How to set up Bind/SplitDNS on FC5?

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:

>> Oh, it isn't?   Hmm...  Then what does that mean for a VPN situation?
>> When I VPNC into my corporate net I need to use the corporate DNS servers.
>> If I'm using named.....  How would this work right now?
>
> If you start a VPN, all DNS traffic is funneled to the corporate
> nameservers that the VPN reports back to NM.  If split DNS were running,
> you'd only use the corporate nameservers for addresses ending in the
> corporate domain name that the VPN provided, or ones you specified in
> the VPN config, instead of everything.  Think of it like the split
> routing that we've already got.

Fair enough.  I guess I can wait until this gets integrated in.  I
thought it had already, but I guess not.  Oh well.  A local caching
nameserver is "better", anyways.

> Dan

-derek

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