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From: Doug Lerner <doug@gol.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Please - Spoil the Ending!
Date: 31 Dec 1995 05:36:38 GMT
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I am reading "DNS & BIND" as quickly as I can right now. Unlike a 
mystery novel, I wouldn't mind at all if somebody ruined the ending for 
me and told me whether what I want to do is easily configurable or not!

I have:

o one Class C network
o a leased line to an Internet provider via a gateway router
o a handful of machines (mostly Macs, one Windows 95 and one FreeBSD)
o TWO domain names (one I've been using for a BBS and a new one I want 
to use for a completely different BBS)

My FreeBSD machine is currently doing primary name serving for my 
network and my provider is doing secondary.

I am adding a Livingston Portmaster to the LAN to give BBS members 
access to dialup PPP.

My question, simply put, is can I handle both domain names easily out of 
the one FreeBSD box? 

I know I can easily receive e-mail for either BBS with the one, but I 
also want outgoing mail to show the correct "from" domain name depending 
on which BBS mail comes from.

Would it make life simpler if I just got another FreeBSD box and 
duplicated everything, just changing domain names and running each 
system side-by-side?

Do I need to split my Class C in two parts? Is there any reason why one 
network can't have two domain names with different IP addresses 
belonging to different domain names arbitrarily? Is there any problem 
with both domain names using the same gateway router?

Any hints to appropriate passages in "DNS & BIND" and general comments 
would be appreciated. Maybe I can turn this into a good Q&A document for 
everybody when I am done!

Thanks!

Doug Lerner,
Tokyo