Hi,

I'm just getting the basics of DNS, by working through the
Linux-DNS-Howto. I have a 192.168 subnet behind a NAT-router and a
public domain, whose DNS, mail and web server are hosted at an external
company (let's say it is domain.com, which is actually not true, of
course). I would like to use this domain name also in my internal
network. First to avoid ugly domain.invalid names, second to learn DNS
better.

So my first question will I run into trouble, when I just want to
configure a local bind9 server, to resolve my local names in my 192.168
subnet, when at the same time I also want correct resolution for the
external servers www.domain.com, mail.domain.com?

Do I need different "views" to achieve my goal? At the moment I don't
know what "view" actually means, I just got this term from a FAQ to a
related question.

My local bind will not be authorative for the complete domain, as I
can't influence the externally hosted servers and IP. What do I have to
tell my bind, to handle this situation?

Thanks in advance for your . Any pointers to docs, which handle my
special problem are welcome.

Ciao
Siegbert