On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Dan Lockwood wrote:
Everyone,
I have a customer that is multihomed, to a public ISP and to another large network that uses 10.0.0.0 address space. The private address space also has services available via public address space and consequently is running a split DNS service, public and private. Because of firewalls and the placement of DNS servers this customer has a nasty routing situation and in order to make DNS work for the private
I assume the "public ISP" provides another route to the "large network" where the services are hosted in case the direct link fails? Is it possible to tunnel from your net over the "public ISP" to the "large network" thereby keeping your private nets off the public ones? You wouldnt need the DNS fix then either? Steve
numbers, has spoofed the domain of the private network. My question is this: are there any documents or RFCs that outline what is an acceptable practice for running DNS and what is not? Their kluge of a network causes continuous problems for both the upstream ISP and the private network to which they are connecting and we may find ourselves in a situation where we have to say that 'xyz' is an acceptable way of operating and 'abc' is not. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!
Dan Lockwood