On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 02:38:19PM +0530, babu dheen <babudh...@yahoo.co.in> wrote a message of 61 lines which said:
> if Internet connection is down, our Internal DNS severs are not able > to get the DNS query from ISP DNS server. Because of this, all users > are not able to access many critical application hosted in internet. I really do not understand. If the Internet connection is down, what use could be the Host file since users won't connect anyway? > Now we would like to add those critical applicaton DNS entries in > our internal DNS server HOST file. Very bad idea. A maintenance nightmare. Do you think that, six months from now, someone in your office will notice that Facebook changed its IP address and you have to update the Host file? > So that if internet link is down, users will be able to get the IP > address of the URL through host file. I don't think that the users want an IP address. They want a connection and, if the Internet link is down, getting the address won't help them. > is there any option in BIND to give priority to HOST file before > connecting it to internet ISP or local zone? Bad idea, don't do it. _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users