From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 9 4:21:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9413E1521C for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 04:21:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id MAA69178; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:20:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 12:20:28 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Langa Kentane Cc: FreeBSD Subject: Re: DNS & Firewall [newbie] Message-ID: <19990909122028.M58237@florence.pavilion.net> References: <000b01befab0$1e541e90$16a8ef9b@impakt> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <000b01befab0$1e541e90$16a8ef9b@impakt> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:42:30PM +0200, Langa Kentane wrote: > Someone told me that I cannot put my dns server behind the firewall. I > argued that this can't be true since on my network my cisco router is also > my firewall and my dns server is working fine behind this. He then told me > that he was talking about IPFW that comes with FreeBSD. I have never used > this so I would not know. Please give me some clarity on this as I am not > an expert on Unix Firewalling. > You can put _anything_ behind a firewall. You may however need to open holes in the firewall to let traffic flow to these things if necessary. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message