Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 16:16:26 -0600 (MDT) From: Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jackstone@sage-one.net> Cc: wolf <mjoyner2@hq.dyns.cx>, Marc Hunter <hunter@hunter.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ipfw and natd during internal to internal access ... Message-ID: <20021010161251.J2374-100000@skywalker.rogness.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20021010170043.012cd790@mail.sage-one.net>
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On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Jack L. Stone wrote: > At 03:35 PM 10.10.2002 -0600, Nick Rogness wrote: > >On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, wolf wrote: > > > >> You might try freebsd-hackers or freebsd-stable mailing lists. They are > >> more technically oriented for things like this. > > > > Um, no don't send this to hackers or stable. That is not > > their focus. This type of question is a newbie question and > > belongs on this list. This question gets asked probably once a > > month or so...maybe needs to be added to someone's FAQ I suppose. > > > > Besides, they will probably tell you the same thing that was > > mentioned below. > > > > > > Yes, this is asked often and wish there was some good complete answers > -- "roadmaps". One answer I suppose is to use a hardware router (but I > don't want to). I too prefer using FBSD as a software router and DNS > server. But, I don't have the extra internal DNS server set up either. > Our networked machines can go to each web server on the network via the > internal IP, like 192.168.0.xxx. > > It gets more complicated because of redirects from the routing machine > (which is also the external DNS server) to the various web servers on > the same network. > > It loads up the web sites just fine. Or, also I can just step over to a > machine with a modem connected to the Internet and go to each one too > that way. > > The above is just another couple of workarounds. I should set up another > machine to do the Internal DNS. Are there some good URLs with info on > setting up such a server for this and won't interfere with the router > and external DNS setups...??? There are so many different ways to do this with DNS: 1) Use another domain (point to inside) 2) Setup subdomain www.internal.domain.com 3) Setup nameserver to respond differently depending on source IP 4) Run a proxy server The list goes on and on. Nick Rogness <nick@rogness.net> - "Wouldn't it be great if we could answer people with a kick to the crotch?" -maddox@xmission.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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