From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 30 13:57:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f52.sea1.hotmail.com [207.68.163.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88EC137B417 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:57:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:47:22 -0700 Received: from 156.153.255.243 by sea1fd.sea1.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 23:00:05 GMT X-Originating-IP: [156.153.255.243] From: "Carolyn Longfoot" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: NAT/DNS/WEB Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 19:00:05 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Apr 2002 20:47:22.0902 (UTC) FILETIME=[3A654B60:01C1F088] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a machine that's a dual homed host running NAT and DNS, connected to the outside world with a static IP. It seems I can nslookup 'www.mydomain.com' from the outside, so I think my DNS responds to lookups from the outside. I am pointing 'WWW' via DNS to a separate machine called web.mydomain.com but for some reason from the outside I cannot get to www.mydomain.com. It is working from the inside however. My confusion is therefore the following: how can I test that outside DNS queries are resolved correctly and why would requests for www... not get routed to the Web server? I'm pretty sure nothing relevant (UDP 53 or IP 80) gets dropped by the firewall btw. This is my first attempt at DNS so please be gentle :-) I'm looking for a conceptual answer but I can follow up with config files if it helps. I read some old posts at 'Ask Mr.DNS' that talked about running 'split DNS'. Is that still necessary? Thanks so much, Caro _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message