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>>>>> "JWC" == Jamin W Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
JWC> On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 08:38, Jake Colman wrote:
>> I have a straightforward question for one and all. Let's assume I
>> have a working masq setup with a set of firewall rules and that my
>> internal machines are successfully able to access the internet from
>> behind my masqed server. I want to set up a caching nameserver to
>> resolve addresses for my internal network. The nameserver will
>> resolve my internal machine names with their internal IP addresses
>> (private Class C addresses) and will forward and cache all queries to
>> the external world. What changes must be made to the named.conf file
>> to allow this to work?
JWC> TMK, none. Just make sure that the external world is not able to
JWC> query your DNS server and that it tops the list of (or is the only)
JWC> DNS server that your internal machines use. I have nearly the same
JWC> configuration working in several different locations. I say nearly
JWC> because each of my locations also serves outside requests.
Preventing the DNS server from servicing outside requests is a function of
the firewall rules, right? It has notbing to do with the named configuration
iteself, right?
Thanks for the quick reply.
...Jake
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