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split DNS
Last modified: Thursday, February 09, 2006
In a split DNS infrastructure, you create two zones for the same domain, one to
be used by the internal network, the other used by the external network. Split
DNS directs internal hosts to an internal
domain name server for name resolution
and external hosts are directed to an external domain name server for name
resolution.
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Split DNS Overview Broadly speaking, computer resources in the department of computer science are divided into internal resources and external resources. External hosts can access external resources by reference to addresses in our global address block.
