bind 9-2-3 was running just fine on two name servers (master NS1 & slave NS2) until I implemented split DNS using "views". I've got about 30 zones, but I'll only present one. Here is the portion of my master named.conf that's of interest. view "private" { match-clients { 192.168.168.0/24; 127.0.0.0/8; 66.80.98.192/28; }; recursion yes; zone "ycc.com" IN { type master; notify explicit; also-notify { 192.168.168.146; }; file "zone/privateycc.com"; # Allow the slave to transfer and inquire. allow-transfer { 192.168.168.146; 192.168.168.211; 192.168.168.54; }; allow-query { internals; }; }; }; view "public" { match-clients { any; }; recursion no; zone "ycc.com" IN { type master; notify explicit; also-notify { 192.168.168.146; }; file "zone/ycc.com"; # Allow the slave to transfer and inquire. allow-transfer { 192.168.168.146; 192.168.168.211; 192.168.168.54; }; allow-query { any; }; }; }; Here's the equivalent from the slave box: view "private" { match-clients { 192.168.168.0/24; 127.0.0.0/8; 66.80.98.192/28; }; recursion yes; zone "ycc.com" IN { type slave; notify no; masters { 192.168.168.144; }; file "zone/privateycc.com"; # Allow the slave to transfer and inquire. allow-transfer { 192.168.168.146; 192.168.168.211; 192.168.168.54; }; allow-query { internals; }; }; }; view "public" { match-clients { any; }; recursion no; zone "ycc.com" IN { type slave; notify no; masters { 192.168.168.144; }; file "zone/ycc.com"; # Allow the slave to transfer and inquire. allow-transfer { 192.168.168.146; 192.168.168.211; 192.168.168.54; }; allow-query { any; }; }; }; I used a sed script to create the slave named.conf from the master version. As you can see, the zone files are called privateycc.com and ycc.com for the private and public DNS I'd like to manage. The file privateycc.com is full of nothing but 192.168.168.x addresses. The file ycc.com is full of nothing but 66.80.98.x addresses. Problem 1: Anyone on the net can query for ycc.com and they get the PRIVATE address. That's wrong! I have no idea how this is happening. Querying for mail.ycc.com, ns1.ycc.com, ns2.ycc.com, etc gets the proper PUBLIC address. Since the public zone file only contains public addresses, how can the name server be handing out a private address? Problem 2: I nuked the zone files on my NS2 box to make absolutely certain that a zone transfer would have to drag every zone file from NS1 over to it. Now the privateycc.com file is identical to the ycc.com file on NS2 only, after the zone transfer. On NS1 they are distinctly different. On NS2 only, every one of my 30 zones has identical private and public zone files, whereas on NS1 they are distinctly different and correct. /var/log/named & messages show nothing wrong. Any ideas? I think its a bind bug, but I wanted more sets of brains looking at this. PS. I turned NS2 off for now to limit the weirdness only to NS1. -- Bill Gradwohl YCC (817) 224-9400 x211 www.ycc.com SPAMstomper Protected E-mail www.stomperware.com -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list