OK, so for historical reasons, we have servers that serve records for a fake internal-only domain whose hosts are all in RFC-1918 space (call those "Internal"). They're different from the servers that host our real domain on real address space (call those "External").
A while back, we made our External servers slaves for the forward and reverse zones on the Internal server. Now it turns out that I need to delegate off a part of 10.in-addr.arpa. Thing is, we never actually delegated that space or the other RFC-1918 stuff officially. Clearly, I need to do that before I go delegating some zone off those parents (we really should only have one root, even if the Internal stuff never goes anywhere - outside, BLACKHOLE-1.IANA.ORG owns 10.in-addr.arpa. after all). My quandary is that I don't think everything pointed at the External servers can see (network-wise) those Internal servers, so they wouldn't be able to follow the delegation ... So can I keep slaving and still delegate? I'm thinking not, but I can't find any examples where it's OK or warnings that it's not in some light googling this afternoon. I fear causing the internets to implode and no one wants that. Peter -- Peter Laws / N5UWY National Weather Center / Network Operations Center University of Oklahoma Information Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Feedback? Contact my director, Craig Cochell, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you!
