We're running the RHEL release of BIND version 9.8.2-0.37.rc1.el6_7.2. My 
environment consists of two slave DNS servers and one master server all running 
BIND. The master name server also runs an application and database that builds 
each zone file, but is not split-horizon compatible. I have a need to resolve a 
single name to IP address differently for internal and external clients.

I would like to change as little as possible without making this change too 
kludgy. We've developed a potential solution that I wanted to run by this 
group. Our solution is to create a new sub-domain within our domain, say 
xxx.test.mydomain.com. I want xxx.test.mydomain.com to resolve to a private 
address internally, and a public Internet IP externally, for a voice 
application. Our proposed solution is:

        - Slave servers are authoritative for mydomain.com and test.mydomain.com
        - No change to the master name server
        - Create the new subdomain test.mydomain.com on both slave DNS servers 
and store two copies of the zone file locally (manually updated when 
necessary), one for each view. Each slave DNS server            is a local 
master for this one zone only.
        - Modify slave named.conf configuration to use BIND Views, creating two 
views, one for internal and one for external and an ACL to distinguish the 
clients
        - Declare each zone and its master name server it both views.
        - The internal view declaration will use the internal copy of the zone 
file and the external view will use the external copy.
        - All other zones will continue to be updated from the master name 
server as they do now.

One particular concern we have is with zone transfers from the master name 
server, which has not been configured for multiple views. Will the slave DNS 
server store separate copies of each zone, do we need to name the local file 
differently for each view,  and can the single zone transfer from the master 
update both views simultaneously? Here is a partial configuration from one of 
the slave name servers to explain the scenario:

/etc/named.conf:

view "internal" {
    match-clients { internals; };
    zone "test.mydomain.com" {
        type master;
        file "data/int_test.mydomain.com";
    };

# other slave zones
zone "yyy.mydomain.com" {
        type slave;
        file "data/yyy.mydomain.com";   <== Can the filename for local copy of 
a slave zone be the same for both views?
        masters {
                172.26.1.1;
        };
     };
};

view "external" {
    match-clients { external; };
    zone "test.mydomain.com" {
        type master;
        file "data/ext_test.mydomain.com";
    };

# other slave zones
zone "yyy.mydomain.com" {
        type slave;
        file "data/yyy.mydomain.com";
        masters {
                172.26.1.1;
        };
     };
};

-Mike
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