From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 8 9:42:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.hushmail.com (mail3.hushmail.com [216.18.8.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B56937B9ED for ; Mon, 8 May 2000 09:42:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cooldoug@hushmail.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by mail3.hushmail.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA02539; Mon, 8 May 2000 09:42:52 -0700 From: cooldoug@hushmail.com Message-Id: <200005081642.JAA02539@mail3.hushmail.com> Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:37:07 -0800 (PDT) Subject: bind/ipfw/natd? To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Morinin'! I'm setting up a domain using freebsd 2.2.7 (don't worry, I'm ordering 4.1 when its avail) as my firewall, router, and dns server. Well, I'm attempting to. I'm only doing this for my own knowlege benefit, this isn't some critical thing that I must have done yesterday. But for a first timer, it is daunting. I'm wondering if I'm doing too much, does it make sense to have all this going on box? I know I need the router/fw/natd bit, I do have a lan that want to be able to reach the net, but adding nameing services to this same box, my question is I wonder if it wouldn't be a little more practical to put the name service on another box behind my firewall machine? I understand bind is very difficult to set up, and indeed my first attempt over the weekend seems to have cut the machine off from both its nic cards. (I'll sort that out next weekend though). I also understand I can actually farm out my dns service to a third party. I wonder if that might not be the way to go. I think I can handle the fw/natd stuff myself, I just wonder if adding dns to this is more than I can deal with. IMPORTANT NOTICE: If you are not using HushMail, this message could have been read easily by the many people who have access to your open personal email messages. Get your FREE, totally secure email address at http://www.hushmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message