Re: feature not available

In article <bb37lh$2ebt$1@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
Don Pandori  <dpandori@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>This is going to sound like a newbie question but, is there a way to make 
>a DNS server use forwarders iff it doesn't have the entry in its local db?

No.

>domain.com is hosted internally and on the Internet. (I know bad practice, 
>but I inherited this setup)

It's actually quite common -- it's usually called "split DNS".

>If host1.domain.com doesn't resolve internally, is there a way for the DNS 
>server to send the request for host1.domain.com to its forwarders (which 
>can resolve host1.domain.com on the Internet side)?

You need to duplicate the public entries in your local DNS.  There are
usually only a handful, so it's not a big problem.

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