Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:06:30 -0400 From: David Pratt <fairwinds@eastlink.ca> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DNS on LAN Message-ID: <0EF11E3E-7376-11D8-A415-000A27B3B070@eastlink.ca> In-Reply-To: <003501c40779$7b875340$6400a8c0@cab421>
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Hi. I have just set up a small LAN. I am using an old pentium computer as a firewall using IPCop (192.168.1.1) as a gateway to the web. It uses a dynamic IP from my ISP so all the machines have web access. I have 3 other machines behind the firewall. I have set up a FreeBSD 4.9 server (192.168.1.2) that I want to use to develop and test my PHP and Python applications. The other machines (a Mac and Windows machine) obtain their IP between 192.168.200 - 192.168.250. I have a domain name registered that is currently pointing to a host that I am using for my live site. So question is how to use my domain name behind my firewall in my LAN with my server for development. I don't know how to do this. I want to be able to get my server on my browser something like this: server01.mydomain.com. ( mydomain substituted for my actual domain) I have read the DNS chapter in the FreeBSD book but I am just as confused as ever in what I need to do to achieve this. I have named my server the following: server01 and in my original configuration when I installed FreeBSD provided a fully qualified name of server01.mydomain.com (mydomain substituted for my actual domain). my hostname file currently looks like this: ::1 localhost 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.2 server01 server01.mydomain.com when I type hostname at command line I get server01.mydomain.com I have this line in my rc.conf file from the original installation: hostname="server01.mydomain.com" Any help greatly appreciated. Regards, Dave
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