On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:06:25 -0500, GPL <linuxlistreader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I may have been over thinking this. My internal DNS will resolve names > on the internal net and external net. I think now in the way I have > been reading the responses to this thread that I feel better about my > understanding of this process. Your /etc/resolv.conf should point to your internal DNS servers. And I bet your internal servers have a "forwarders" option which tells them to use the external servers (recursively) for all domains except your internal one. This is very typical. > One thing though regarding the hosts file: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > 10.192.0.200 windmere.internaldomain.com windmere > 208.x.x.x windmere.externaldomain.com windmere > > Is it bad practice to give the box two FQDNs per network? Would I > experience any negative repercussions from approaching the setup in > this manner? It's bad practice to use the hosts file while you have a fully functioning DNS server. Use DNS by itself, you don't need anything in your hosts file (with the posible exception of localhost). However, it is perfectly fine (and common) to assign a different FQDN to each IP address (whether on different interfaces or on the same interface). Of course you'll need to pick one name to use as the system "hostname", but it shouldn't matter much which one you pick. Some applications like Apache or MySQL may care, depending on how they are configured. -- Deron Meranda
