[des000]

Here's an interesting thing I'm looking for that I haven't found yet. It's about DNS servers. If you have a small network, you can use a host file. If you have a large network, you can use a DNS server. But what about a network that you consider in-between? Is there a free Internet service that you can use anywhere that you can sign up for an account on, that you can use to achieve the same effect as using an internal DNS server?

For example, you want register some domains. Let's say, "abc". Then you want to set up another domain, "read.abc", and "write.abc", etc. Then you would put the DNS address in say, your router. Now you can access DNS for say, "a.read.abc" or "b.write.abc". You are also allowed to specify it to refer to an external server if querries cannot be found in this DNS server. Each account has these settings you could set, so that means that if company a has an account here, it does not get access to work with company b's DNS entries (unless for some reason there's been some work arounds applied neccessary, like setting another the same DNS server for both external DNS servers that they both use that would let you have some strange DNS configuration).

Now I'm not talking about the job of this service being to process external names so you have Internet access, such as www.google.com, I'm talking about Intranet querries. An external service to proccess only your internal DNS querries. And only if you're using the same account for the DNS querries. So the server will not proccess querries for another network, just your network when you request the service. But that doesn't nessassarily mean that the server has to be different in physical terms. I'm asking not for any specific phyisical structure now.

It would process all external DNS querries by just sending the request for the external querry to the specified external server. So what I'm looking for is similar to openDNS, except for it is used instead for the internal network. Our internal network then would refer to the external internal DNS server, and then the internal external server would process requests to the external external DNS server which does whatever it does. Of course, since we've got a router, we'd simply continue to refer it it, or if we still think we ever need a DNS server, then it'd refer to it which refers to the router, which does it's thing, and so on.

Is there any such existing free service available?

[Squashman]

Doesn't make much sense to me. You wouldn't want an external DNS server to process your internal lan's DNS. I don't think it would even work for one. If you are running any type of server OS, you have a DNS application builtin to it.