From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 12 20:45:40 2003 Return-Path: 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 BB6FD16A4BF for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 20:45:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-02.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01C6E43FBF for ; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 20:45:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jason@ec.rr.com) Received: from ec.rr.com (cpe-024-211-231-149.ec.rr.com [24.211.231.149]) h8D3fupM027198; Fri, 12 Sep 2003 23:41:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F629112.3050205@ec.rr.com> Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 23:37:54 -0400 From: jason User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030713 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ronj_clark@yahoo.com References: <20030913031152.72191.qmail@web10009.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030913031152.72191.qmail@web10009.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and DNS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 03:45:40 -0000 Ronnie Clark wrote: >Hello all, > >I have a questions that I just cannot get my brain >around. I have a home network and use FreeBSD as my >firewall using IPFW. It is also my internal DNS >server, handling name resolution for inside the >network and passing requests to the internet. I have >my own domain, and use a free DNS service to point to >my static IP from the outside. But as of late, the DNS >service has come under DOS attack. So, if I want to >host my own DNS records, so that people on the outside >get my static, routable internet IP address, plus my >reverse DNS record, can I still have the DNS service >serve my internal requests? Can you have an A record >point to the same machine, yet list two different IP >addresses? Or do I need to move my internal DNS to >another system to serve the inside? Please help, brain >in knots over this one. > >Thanks, >RC > > > > I believe you can just by checking the handbook. For more detailed info I would recommend you type "$man named". That should have all the details you need. Jason