AW: [Shorewall-users] Problem with DNS

Tom Eastep
Mon, 17 Nov 2003 10:10:14 -0000

On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 08:18, Holger Br?ckner wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 15:37, Johannes Scherbaum wrote:
> > No, we have no Active Directory in out net.
> > But... All our other internal server have a name like xxx.domain.de
>
> ahh, a major dns "DON''T DO THIS" :)
> i would really change this to .local asap.

Or use either:

a) Bind 9 "views"; or
b) Separate internal DNS server

so that internal clients resolve the server''s DNS name to the internal
address while external clients resolve the name to the external address.

I use Bind 9 views personally.

-Tom
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