Configuring DNS for an intranet

Hi all,

I am trying to configure the DNS server for my intranet on a Debian
Sarge box. I have a domain, say www.mydomain.com, that is currently
hosted by a hosting company that provides the usual www.mydomain.com,
pop3.mydomain.com and others.

What I would like to do is to configure the internal DNS server of my
intranet to resolve a few special second class domains, such as
intranet.mydomain.com, to a local IP address in my 192.168.0.x private
network, while all other requests to *.mydomain.com should be forwarded
to the real authoritative DNS server for my domain.

I am not sure if this is possible at all without hosting my own
authoritative DNS server for my domain, but I am entirely new at DNS
configuration so I really don't know. I have tried playing with
resolv.conf but all I was able to get was to become authoritative for
the domain mydomain.com, therefore losing any ability to resolve the
usual www. , dns., pop3., mail. etc -

Any help would be greatly welcome.

On 9 Jun 2006 04:53:40 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to configure the DNS server for my intranet on a Debian
> Sarge box. I have a domain, say www.mydomain.com, that is currently
> hosted by a hosting company that provides the usual www.mydomain.com,
> pop3.mydomain.com and others.
>
> What I would like to do is to configure the internal DNS server of my
> intranet to resolve a few special second class domains, such as
> intranet.mydomain.com, to a local IP address in my 192.168.0.x private
> network, while all other requests to *.mydomain.com should be forwarded
> to the real authoritative DNS server for my domain.

These two might help getting a local named server running.
http://langfeldt.net/DNS-HOWTO/BIND-9/
http://www.cymru.com/Documents/secur...-template.html