[plug] split dns based on destination domain/cc

[wdk@moriah]

thanks Brad, I'll give that a go.

BillK



On 11/08/2012, at 8:06, Brad Campbell <brad at fnarfbargle.com> wrote:

> On 11/08/12 07:59, Brad Campbell wrote:
>> On 10/08/12 22:26, William Kenworthy wrote:
>>> Not being a DNS expert I am looking for some ideas on how to solve a
>>> challenge - I am running Bind as an internal caching nameserver with a
>>> few private zones with iinet as upstream.
>>> 
>>> I would like to do a split DNS where queries for .com go to a nameserver
>>> in the US via a VPN, whilst anything else stays with iinet. Bind can
>>> use views but they are based on client address matches, not domain as
>>> far as I can see.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas?
>>> 
>> Yep. Put dnsmasq in front of bind and tell it to route all *.com queries to the specific nameserver you want.
>> It's very flexible like that.
>> 
> Sorry, not a lot of detail in that suggestion.
> 
> Something like this.
> Set up dnsmasq to listen on say port 5353. Have two (or three) server lines in the dnsmasq config like this
> 
> server /com/1.2.3.4
> server 2.3.4.5 #<- ns1.iinet.net.au
> server 3.4.5.6 #<-ns2.iinet.net.au
> 
> and make sure your bind forwarders is pointed at 127.0.0.1 port 5353
> 
> When amnet was having issues with their dns, I set up dnsmasq to point to amnet, iinet and optus dns and then used the --all-servers option which sends the queries to all three in parallel. It then takes the first valid answer received and sends it down stream. It makes for _very_ fast resolution if one of those has the query cached.
> 
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