Slyglif Cain wrote:
>
> Hello. I was looking through the docs on setting up named, but I can't seem
> to find the info I am looking for. I am trying to setup named on my RH5.1
> box for caching lookups (which is easy, I just install that RPM), but I also
> want it to contain information about my local network. Since the local net
> is in the 192.168.x.x range, I don't want any of that host information to
> leak to the outside world. Has anyone set this up? And if so, could you
> send me an example configuration to do this? Thanks for your time.
I have a setup like this. I'm sure that my DNS configuration is nothing
short of criminal, but it works. ;)
If your local net is under 192.168.x.x, then you must be connecting to
the Internet indirectly, right? Masquerading, maybe? If that's the
case, then you don't need to worry about propagating bad DNS info unless
you accidentally pipe your internel nameserver's tables to some outer
nameserver.
Here's what we do: on our masq'ed net, we have two DNS servers -- both
configured identically for the purpose of the present discussion. Those
servers list every machine on our internal net, which is 192.168.1.0.
They also each have a "forwarder" directive which points to a DNS server
on the "real" net, but all that does is allow them to resolve addresses
from other domains.
So, all of the machines on our local net point to one of our internal
DNS servers for name resolution. If they need an 'internal' name
resolved, it gets taken care of. If they need an external name
resolved, then the request is either fulfilled or forwarded onward to
the outer DNS box, but either way no internal information is being
passed beyond our internal net to the outside world; it only flows
inward.
Does this address your question?
More info can be found in the Network Administrator's Guide, available
from Sunsite and mirrored elsewhere.
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