Re: [DNSOP] Terminology question: split DNS

Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> Mon, 19 March 2018 17:54 UTC

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Paul Hoffman wrote:
> Some folks had reservations about the current definition of "split
> DNS": "Where a corporate network serves up partly or completely
> different DNS inside and outside its firewall. There are many
> possible variants on this; the basic point is that the correspondence
> between a given FQDN (fully qualified domain name) and a given IPv4
> address is no longer universal and stable over long periods." (Quoted
> from <xref target="RFC2775"/>, Section 3.8)
>
> What would the WG like for this definition?

my only qualm is that A and AAAA RR's are not the only things that are 
usually not the same when DNS is split in this way. MX, NS, SRV, and 
likely a dozen others, and DNSSEC signatures and keys, can also differ.

it should be called split-horizon DNS not split-DNS, to highlight the 
fact that it's the same zone name in an entirely separate DNS namespace.

-- 
P Vixie