It doesn't change the statement if the mailserver is requiring its forward and reverses to match. Our DNS at work provides reverses for portions of 10/18, 172.16/12 and 192.168/16 for various reasons, including that our backup system requires forwards and reverses to match.
----- Original Message ----- > > > 192.168.0.101 is in the non-routeable address block > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network > > > > > On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. < > lkc...@ksu.edu > wrote: > > > None of what you've described seems to have anything to do with > bind.... > > But, if you are running bind... there are a number of ways that you > could have bind return the internal IP to internal users, and return > the external IP to everybody else. Can even do this if your internal > DNS server is not connected to the external DNS servers in any way ( > > Hard to say why your mail server was killed by the host file > override....perhaps its using the external names to know what its > external IP is, and it suddenly ceased to be an external. Or perhaps > it requires forward and reverse lookups to be correct, and you don't > have your DNS configured to return the correct fqdn for > 192.168.0.101. Probably not, because there's no reverse for > 184.70.190.126....hmmm, maybe it doesn't like that there's no longer > an MX record for any of the domains now...where MX points to a > different IP (184.70.190.122). > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have a new router that is apparently making it impossible for me > > to > > view my personal sites from behind the router by domain name, a > > function that is necessary. I can see the sites by local > > 192.168.... > > ip address and port number and others have confirmed they are > > available on the www, so the server is running and named is > > resolving properly outside the LAN. > > > > > > This is the hosts.conf, where I think my error might lie: > > > > > > > > > > > > ## > > # Host Database > > # > > # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface > > # when the system is booting. Do not change this entry. > > ## > > 127.0.0.1 localhost web2 > > 255.255.255.255 broadcasthost > > ::1 localhost > > fe80::1%lo0 localhost > > 184.70.190.122 mail.normanfournier.com mail web1-ext > > 184.70.190.126 web2.normanfournier.com www web2-ext > > 192.168.0.1 nf-telus-gw-int > > 192.168.0.100 norman-desktop > > 192.168.0.101 ns2 > > 184.70.190.122 ns1 > > > > > > > > > > > > I *added* these lines to the bottom of hosts.conf > > > > > > > > > > > > 192.168.0.101 creativeprocess.biz > > 192.168.0.101 thecocoapod.com > > 192.168.0.101 rogueagent.ca > > 192.168.0.101 e4edmonton.com > > 192.168.0.101 brandasset.net > > 192.168.0.101 greaterthanhtml.com > > 192.168.0.101 kawacatoose.com > > > > > > I rebooted and something killed my mailserver when I did this, and > > I > > still could now view the sites by domain name behind the router, so > > I reverted to the old file. Is here another place I should add the > > domain names, is there an error in my syntax (this has worked > > perfectly before) or it this the entirely wrong place to be looking > > to solve this problem? > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > Norman > > _______________________________________________ > > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to > > unsubscribe from this list > > > > bind-users mailing list > > bind-users@lists.isc.org > > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > > _______________________________________________ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to > unsubscribe from this list > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to > unsubscribe from this list > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: lkc...@ksu.edu Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
