John Austin wrote:
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 09:19 -0800, John Cornelius wrote:
Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
[WARNING! This is a long discussion!]
Is it possible to have a single DNS server support
two different domain names, with each domain
name having it's own forward and reverse lookups?
The problem I seem to run into is that of reverse
lookups; I cannot seem to figure out just how to
have common reverse IP lookups separated so that
it returns the correct domain name based on the
domain name itself.
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My goal here is to support redundancy by having two
separate servers, each supporting two domain names
so that if one server drops dead, the other server will
take over and also, I really do not want to have 4 different
servers, two for each domain name so, it is about cost
as well.
Does this scenario make any sense at all?
I have looked for examples on the Internet but I could
not find anything that can shed some light on this. Perhaps
someone can point me in the right direction or - perhaps this
is a nutty idea and there is a better way?
Kind regards,
Dan
The difficulty with what you want to do may be that you shouldn't want
to do it.
DNS is actually two sets of services namely address resolution for
domain names and name resolution for Internet addresses.
In the first instance any number of domain names can resolve to a single
address i.e., mail.x.net and www.y.net can both resolve to the same IP
address. This information is set up for each domain irrespective of what
the IP address is. Indeed, and domain name can resolve to several IP
addresses for load balancing or redundancy.
In the second instance an IP address can only resolve to a single
Internet domain name and the reverse lookup resolution often is done on
a computer that is different than the computer providing the forward
resolution because it must be done by the entity that owns the network
e.g., your ISP.
When a remote host looks up the name of a computer through reverse DNS
lookup it only provides the address to the server registered as the
owner of the address space and each address can have only one
(canonical) name at any given instant. If it were otherwise the name
server would never know which name to return in response to the reverse
lookup query.
My ISP (Eclipse) permits the alteration of the "reverse zone" file on
their Server such that it matches the Forward zone file used my Name
Registration Co (123reg)
I used to test for reverse lookup on my mail server until I
lost some important mail!
--------------------------------------
host -v baa.com
;; ANSWER SECTION:
baa.com. 60043 IN A 83.98.101.4
[root@tarifa ~]# host -v 83.98.101.4
Trying "4.101.98.83.in-addr.arpa"
Received 42 bytes from 148.197.29.5#53 in 36 ms
Trying "4.101.98.83.in-addr.arpa"
Host 4.101.98.83.in-addr.arpa. not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Received 42 bytes from 148.197.29.5#53 in 31 ms
--
John Cornelius
"I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent."
Ashleigh Brilliant, 1979
I apologise for entering the discussion late but I am interested in
understanding more !
Why is it necessary to have the same machine in two different domains?
Hmm... sounds reasonable... so, do you mean that you can have a primary dns
on machine1 for domain1 and a secondary dns for domain1 on machine 2 and
then have a primary dns on machine2 for domain2 and a secondary dns
on machine1 for domain2? If so, then for two domain names, you use two
machines? If so, that would work for me. But then again, what if you add a
3rd domain name? It might not be possible?
Is not a slave server with "identical" zone files better/easier for
backup purposes.
If two domains are really essential is it possible to
have the ethernet interfaces configured with two separate
IP ranges such that two reverse zone files are valid?
something like
ip a a 192.168.1.4/24 dev eth0
ip a a 192.168.2.4/24 dev eth0
John
Hmm... splitting unique IPs across network cards (multi-homing)? I
wonder where the complexity kicks in, under this scheme.
As I said earlier, I was simply trying to save on hardware cost and yet
get hardware redundancy to boot! Seems that is what clustering is for,
but that is a bit more than I can chew at the moment. I suppose another
way is to use a Cisco router that does the heavy lifting and simply
load-balance
across the DNS server farms like they do for website server farms but
then again
Cisco hardware ain't cheap, esp. for a home system, FWIW.
This whole thing started because it is recommended that you have two dns
servers for fail-over/redundancy - of which I haven't been able to solve
(yet).
Kind regards,
Dan
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