Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2001 16:32:18 -0500 From: "Oliver, Michael W." <oliver.michael@gargantuan.com> To: 'Linh Pham' <lplist@closedsrc.org>, Jonathan Hilgeman <JHilgeman@ecx.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Name Server Behind Router Message-ID: <1DA741CA6767A144BAA4F10012536C27A8F4@LKLDDC01.GARGANTUAN.COM>
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Open the following ports for the following reasons: Udp 53 = dns queries Tcp 53 = zone transfers =========== Michael Oliver > -----Original Message----- > From: Linh Pham [mailto:lplist@closedsrc.org] > Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 4:08 PM > To: Jonathan Hilgeman > Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' > Subject: Re: Name Server Behind Router > > > On 2001-11-09, Jonathan Hilgeman scribbled: > > # 4 - I want to be able to use that server as a name server. > However, I have # tried a few different things and I cannot > seem to get it configured and # running correctly. > > To start named at startup, make sure that you have the following in > /etc/rc.conf: > > named_enable="YES" > > # Can someone offer general tips or even specific tips if you > can, to how I # should set this all up. i.e. Should I use > DHCP to assign IP addresses via # the router or not? What > about the IP addresses? How does the name server get # > recognized by the outside world? What should my rc.conf files > look like? I'm # currently reading through O' Reilly's book > on DNS and BIND, but I'd like # some interactive feedback as > well. Thanks in advance! > > For the DNS server to be accessible to the public Internet, > you need to first open port tcp/53 on your router to the DNS > server on the private side. > > If you want to or have a registered domain, just setup the > registration at InterNIC (or whomever you register the domain > with) to point to the public IP Address of the DNS server. > > -- > > Linh Pham > [lplist@closedsrc.org] > > # Every solution breeds new problems > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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