Re: Split zone DNS?

Hi,

Thanks for the feedback everyone!

I'll be looking at unbound and seeing if I need nsd or not.

Have a great weekend!

Cheers,
Steve

On 28/07/2017 7:58 AM, Steve Williams wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently upgraded to 6.1 and am trying to (finally, after many
> OpenBSD versions over 10 years) fine tune my home network.
>
> I would like to run a local resolver on my internal network that will
> resolve all my hosts on my local network to IP addresses on my local
> network(s) rather than resolving to their public IP addresses.
>
> I believe it's called a "split zone" DNS, where my domain is resolved
> locally, but everyone else is resolved using normal resolution processes.
>
> I set this up at one of my previous jobs using BIND, but that was 7
> years ago. I've never gone to the trouble of doing it at home, but I
> would like to exercise my brain a bit as well as having my home
> network set up "better".
>
> What is the best tool to accomplish this these days? Is NSD the
> "modern" tool to be using on OpenBSD?
>
> Are there any hooks for dhcpd to update records?
>
> I've read the NSD(8), nsd.conf(5) man pages and that seems to be the
> way to go, but I thought I'd check the wisdom here to see if there is
> a better approach.
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Williams