The problem is that there isn't a master for hearing.org -- it is all fake intranet. The hearingsociety.org which is real points to the wrong MX record -- outside email is picked up by the isp and then gets put in an email account that our server gets periodically with fetchmail, I want local hearingsociety.org MX record to point to our local server, but outside dns would point to my isp's server. I hope that was somewhat clear Thanks, Ben On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Adam Maloney wrote: > You could try setting up your machine to be a slave for the zone. It > would still carry authorative information so it wouldn't have to do a > lookup every time...you'd just have to do a lookup when Bind wanted to > update the zone from the primary. > > zone "hearing.org" { > type slave; > file "sec/hearing.org"; > masters { > primary.dns.server > }; > }; > > > > Adam Maloney > Systems Administrator > Sihope Communications > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ben Luey wrote: > > > We have a registered domain that we use for e-mail. I want e-mail send > > from the intranet to go to the server and be processed without triggering > > our internet link (dial on demand), but don't want to be a master dns for > > the domain name since the web site and stuff has a real internet addresses > > and is contorled by other people. I just want to have hearingsociety.org > > have a local MX record and all other dns requests handled by the > > forwarders. > > > > I currently have in my domain.hosts: > > > > @ IN SOA hearing.org. server.hearing.org. ( > > 1997080600 ; serial number > > 10800 ; refresh rate (3 hours) > > 1800 ; retry (30 minutes) > > 1209600 ; expire (2 weeks) > > 604800 ) ; minium (1 week) > > MX 5 server.hearing.org. > > NS server.hearing.org. > > # NS hearing.org. > > hearingsociety.org. MX 3 server.hearing.org. > > server A 192.168.1.1 > > finance A 192.168.1.211 > > > > giving hearingsociety.org a MX record; however, since in /etc/named.conf, > > domain.hosts is only in the zone for hearing.org > > > > zone "hearing.org" { > > type master; > > file "domain.hosts"; > > }; > > > > This works, but when our internet access stopped, local mail would not get > > delivered I think because the dns lookup somehow needed outside access to > > resolve the MX on hearingsociety.org -- when I shut down named and added a > > line to the /etc/hosts it fixed the problem, but that messes up website > > dns lookups. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ben > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org > For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org