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To: Jeremy Vandenhouten <jeremy.vandenhouten@marquette.edu>
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Subject: Re: DNS Setup
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	This goes WAY beyond basic freebsd questions, and is really quite a bit
more complicated than you are even describing here. You need to get and
read "DNS and BIND, Third Edition" from O'Reilly. It will describe in
detail what you need to do to make something like this work. 

Good luck,

Doug

Jeremy Vandenhouten wrote:
> 
> In setting up 1 of the 2 dns servers required for taking control of a
> domain. Is setting up one behind a firewall constitute a valid option?
> More info to follow:
> 
> Lucent Router ------ FreeBSD NAT firewall --------- DNS Server
> 
> I know I need to tell the firewall to redirect port 53 both forwards
> and backwards for the DNS server.
> 
> A case in point, assuming I was on the outside of the Lucent Router and
> wanted to use the internal DNS server (192.168.x.x) from another
> FreeBSD box, where would I point it at because obviously the DNS server
> doesn't have a legitimate external "Internet IP."
> 
> The question is easy if I'm internal behind the firewall, I could just
> point directly at the 192.168.x.x address, but that's not the situation
> I'm looking at. Or, alternatively, is there a better way of setting
> this up without putting the DNS server on the firewall machine.
> 
> Thanks for any input...
> 
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