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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 1996 15:11:06 +0200 (EET)
From:      Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>
To:        invalid opcode <coredump@nervosa.com>
Cc:        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, me@gw.muc.ditec.de, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: An ISP's Wishlist...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960220150605.10170B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960219184854.1181D-100000@nervosa.com>

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On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, invalid opcode wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> 
> > It seems that Narvi said:
> > > > I've done this, it wasn't too difficult. I'm now running three
> > > > nameds on our firewall bastion, one to serve the inside network
> > > > with everything on the outside hidden and a wildcard MX-record
> 
> Why not just run 2 named servers on 2 seperate machines ( 2 total ). The 
> bastion host would run named, and any name queries to the protected 
> network would be forwarded to an internal host running the second named 
> server, which of course, by default (firewalled), only trusts the 
> bastion host. This way you only run 2 named servers, and protect the 
> secrecy of the internal hosts. Of course, the only problem I can think 
> of is the possibility of the bastion named caching the lookups and 
> outsiders being able to see internal hostnames via the cache. 
> 
> == Chris Layne  =============================================================
> == coredump@nervosa.com ================= http://www.nervosa.com/~coredump ==
> 
> 

Exactly - having the mutated named is actually an advantage, if you don't 
have (and can't have) 2 hosts for it, especially if it is cost wise (in 
terms of time spent on look-ups) to run a caching name server on your 
bastion host. And if the surrounding net is stupid enough to *have* the 
internal host names kept secret.

	Sander.




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