NSE 3000 Advanced DNS

Are there any plans to add advanced features to the build-in DNS server.
I have a client that needs to set up Split DNS ( also referred to as “NAT Loopback” or “Hairpin Nat”) Need to create DNS zones etc.

Don’t really want to set up a separate DNS server if I don’t have to.

We don’t have exactly that but there are a couple of features that may be useful

  • You can add Local DNS Entries (NSE Group → DNS) so that abc.mycompany.net resolves to 192.168.1.100 rather than the public IP resolved by the upstream server
  • We have the ability to delegate certain zones to another DNS server. See the Conditional Forwarding Rules under NSE Group → DNS.
    So for instance I have an Windows server at 192.168.1.50 running a DNS server which can resolve names for its AD clients, and the AD domain is mycompany.invalid.net, I’d add an entry for
    domain mycompany.invalid.net
    IP Address 192.168.1.50
    then a request to resolve abc.mycompany.invalid.net goes to the DNS server running on 192.168.1.50 rather than the usual upstream DNS server. It simplifies the additional server a bit since it doesn’t need to be the resolving server used by all devices at the site but can just handle that zone.