bind fun

[Andrew Speer]

On Tue, August 28, 2007 3:31 pm, Shane wrote:
> On 28/08/07, Andrew Speer <andrew.speer at isolutions.com.au> wrote:
>> I am not sure I understand the bit about "part of the zone is defined in
>> one NS and the rest on another" ..
>
> This was probably a bit vague on my part.
>
> ns1.mydomain.com has NS records for say ftp.adl.mydomain.com,
> mail.adl.mydomain.com, www.mydomain.com ...and a few others. This is
> the primary public NS for our domain. Obviously these are all part of
> zone "mydomain.com"
>
> Internally we've got another NS which has all internal hosts - these
> all are of for hostname.mydomain.com, hence also are part of zone
> "mydomain.com".
>
> What I'm trying to prevent is having to list all the external hosts on
> both servers - when stuff breaks invariably some server or other is
> forgotten to get updates which leads to annoyingly trivial "bug fixes"
> that it would be good to be able to prevent by having bind do stuff
> for me :-)
>

I've never used it, but you could try the $INCLUDE directive:

http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch8/include.html

If it works please let us know.

Andrew