"Noctaire" <noctaire@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I have two network feeds and operate DNS on both. Each is a totally
> separate and unique feed -- different routers, IP space, etc. I'd like to
> virtual the DNS server on the secondary as a VM running on a host machine
> that sits on the primary network.
>
> The server has 2 NICs (it's a PowerEdge 2650) and I'm not using the second
> NIC, so I could just as easily plug that into the secondary network.
>
> Is this a doable thing? I don't want to create any routing issues for the
> physical box and I know W2K3E doesn't particularly play well with mixed
> network segments like that.
It seems a strange thing to do, but it is possible.
When you enable the second NIC, you would connect the vm to the virtual
network linked to that NIC.
On the host, you would disable VMNS on the first network card (so that it
was not accessible from a VM). On the second NIC you would disable
everything except VMNS (so that only the vm could access the network).