Advanced DNS configuration question....

[Gregory Gulik <greg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Long story short I'm trying to configure named on Shrike to resolve 
local hostnames directly but for hosts it doesn't specifically know 
about I need named to query an external name server, exactly ONE 
external name server.

Long version:

I have a Nexland Pro 800 Turbo router to load balance two high speed 
connections.  I have it more for failover than load balancing but that's 
another story.  One of the "issues" with the Nexland supporting two 
ports is that it insists on being a DNS relay.  It is configured with 
the DNS server IP addresses of both ISPs and will only send queries over 
WAN 1 to WAN 1's DNS server, and only queries to WAN 2's DNS server over 
WAN 2.   In my particular case my ISPs don't care where the queries come 
from, but the Nexland router insists on doing the DNS itself and will 
refuse to "pass through" DNS queries.

So, since I have my own name servers to serve local host names to my 
local network I need to configure BIND to return local host names but 
for external host names I need it to send queries to the router itself, 
otherwise it's not able to resolve external host names.

Any ideas????


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