On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Paul Cartwright <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/08/2010 11:41 AM, Tom H wrote: >> >> I realize that it's not your issue. I was just re-pointing out a >> misconfiguration that Stan pointed out. Unless you're using that DNS >> server to provide DNS services within your network (I can only say >> "wow!" if you are), it's pointless entry because no one external to >> your network can reach that box with either "192.168.10.2" or >> "paulandcilla.homelinux.org". > > hm, not sure about that.. paulandcilla.homelinux.org is a dyndns "fake" > domain that points to my routers static IP..
There's no way that dyndns is using a private adress. What happens if ten others have a "192.168.10.2" box, use the same DNS server that you do, and decide to create an entry for that box on that DNS server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

