On 2/23/2011 4:08 AM, babu dheen wrote:
Hi,
Our setup is; We have internal DNS server wherein BIND is configured
in RHEL 5 and many internal zones are configured. if Internet
connection is down, our Internal DNS severs are not able to get the
DNS query from ISP DNS server. Because of this, all users are not able
to access many critical application hosted in internet.
Now we would like to add those critical applicaton DNS entries in our
internal DNS server HOST file. So that if internet link is down, users
will be able to get the IP address of the URL through host file.
If the names of these "critical applications" reside in zones that you
own, you should probably set yourself up as a stealth slave for those
zones. If they're in someone else's zones, and being a stealth slave is
impractical, then you could play a dangerous game by maintaining a
"fake" version of the zone yourself (defined as "master"). Dangerous
because the IPs could change without any notice and then your data is
instantly invalid. But, I suppose that isn't any worse than hosts-file
entries, right?
is there any option in BIND to give priority to HOST file before
connecting it to internet ISP or local zone?
Nope, BIND doesn't control whether a process looks in the hosts file or not.
- Kevin
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