From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 26 16:14:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from trinity.magpage.com (trinity.magpage.com [216.155.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C6F637B6AA for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:14:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfrazier@magpage.com) Received: from magpage.com (rapunzel.magpage.com [216.155.50.98]) by trinity.magpage.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1R0Edu20128; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:14:40 -0500 Message-ID: <3A9AF181.E4BA86C@magpage.com> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 19:14:57 -0500 From: Daniel Frazier Organization: Magpage Internet Services X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "G. Jason Middleton" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: DNS from behind a firewall References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "G. Jason Middleton" wrote: > > greta that is what i thought....i was not sure though.....can i run it > from the box that runs the firewall? sure. In general it's not a good idea to run additional services on a firewall since the more services you're running means the more services an attacker can try to exploit, but in a pinch you can do it. > > limited machines... qualifies for "in a pinch". -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message