olimpo88/PyDDNS

Adding Forward Zone

simonso1224 opened this issue · 5 comments

simonso1224 commented

Thanks for making the PyDDNS server available.

Just wondering if there is any way that I can use this server to resolve domains other than the ones locally by the server? Is there any way that I can set up forward zones to forward queries to a public DNS server?

olimpo88 commented

Hi, simonso1224 this project does not solve that, that you could solve it with some service for example bind9 or dnmasq on your server.

simonso1224 commented

Thanks for the reply. Maybe I should be a little more specific in my description.

I do need the functionality of having my own private DNS server, which is perfect for my case. I am needing the functionality of this project to do that. I can successfully point resources to use PyDDNS server as the primary DNS server, and I can resolve private DNS requests. However, on the same VMs, they would also need to access to the public Internet, which needs domain name resolution to domains like www.google.com, which is currently not covered in scope by this project.

If you can be kind to point me to the right direction of how I can do both on the same server, that would be great.

olimpo88 commented

PyDDNS is not a DNS server, so it cannot be used as the primary.

PyDDNS is a dynamic DNS server, you need to install bind9 on your server for example, so you can have your local domains, resolve external domains and one of your domains or subdomains that must be dynamic in that case in your DNS create an NS record pointing to PyDDNS

simonso1224 commented

Thank you very much for your suggestion. Will definitely research in this direction.

olimpo88 commented

Thank you very much for your suggestion. Will definitely research in this direction.

Perfect!!! @simonso1224

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