From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 6 11:14:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88F3516A4DA for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:14:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3469343D67 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 11:13:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k66BDZwq007331; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 06:13:35 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060706061142.0277b1e8@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 06:13:24 -0500 To: "Michael S" , "David Stanford" From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: DNS beginner question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 11:14:11 -0000 Yes DNS will work with your port forwarding assuming you have it set up correctly on your router. Are you trying to be the authoritative DNS for your domain? If you are you will still need a secondary DNS. -Derek At 05:56 AM 7/6/2006, Michael S wrote: >The "open" ports are simply port-forwarded from the router to my >internal network (NAT). And I only have one public IP. >For me the more important issue is whether DNS would work with private >IP addresses. > > >On 7/5/06, David Stanford wrote: >> >> >>On 7/5/06, Michael S wrote: >> > Hi all. >> > >> > I am trying to set up a DNS service. I have 2 FreeBSD machines, one's >> > web and DNS (that I am setting up) and the other FTP. Both machines >> > are behind a router and get local addresses (i.e. 192.168....). If >> > DNS, FTP and web ports in the router are open, will I be able to set >> > up the DNS in a way such that when someone from the outside types >> > www.mydomain.com, he'll be taken to the machine that runs apache, and >> > when he types ftp.mydomain.com he'll be taken to the machine which >> > runs ftp? >> > By the way simply typing ftp://mydomain.com and http://mydomain.com >> > does the trick, but I want it to work with prefixes too. >> > >> > Hopefully my question isn't too confusing. >> > >> > Thanks in advance. >> > Michael >> > >> >>Hi Michael, >> >>You'll have to clarify "open" regarding the WEB, DNS, and FTP ports on the >>router. Are they simply port-forwarded to the internal servers (meaning >>based on service ports) or do you have one-to-one NAT mapping a public IP to >>an internal for each server? If it's the latter, and each machine has its >>own public IP, then you can simply set DNS to point to each server >>respectively: >> >>www.mydomain.com -> publicIP1 -> privateIP1 >> ftp.mydomain.com -> publicIP2 -> privateIP2 >> >>The real question is whether you have a block of public IPs or just one. But >>to be honest, you can probably get away with just having a single public IP >>and using port forwarding as most browsers (including Firfox and IE) >>recognize the "ftp" and "www" subdomains and automatically adjust to that >>protocol. >> >>i.e. ftp.somedomain.com will automatically be translated to >>ftp://ftp.somedomain.com (ftp.freebsd.org ). >> >>-David >>-- >>[root@fbsd ~]# fortune >>Happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion. >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.