Zone file question

[Travis Roy]

>   Listing one public nameserver and one private in the same file is a
> sure sign of confusion.  Ten-to-one their local IT admin set up their
> Windows Active Directory domain name to be the same as their public
> domain name -- usually a really bad idea, for reasons like this.  Now
> s/he's trying to reconcile having a local network and a public network
> with two different namespaces.

Ahh, I bet that's exactly what happened. I wondered what was up with 
that. Thanks for the insight Ben. I was scratching my head on why they 
would do it like that.

>   And the "mail" RR is a CNAME for itself.  That's a loop.... a
> loop... a loop... a loop...

Yah, saw that..

Thank god this customer is going with managed services.. their network 
map would make your head spin :)