On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 05:39:05PM +0100, Jerome Lacoste (Frisurf) wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 18:10, Jeremy Gaddis wrote: > > something i do that you may or may not be able to use in your > > situation is to have different a records for the same hostname. > > > > internally, my network uses the main.gaddis.org. subdomain, > > which doesn't exist outside of the internal network. i run > > nameservers on the internal side which are authoritative for > > main.gaddis.org. subdomain. any machine inside the network that > > looks up (for example) www.main.gaddis.org gets the a record > > from the internal nameservers, pointing at 192.168.0.x. anyone > > outside of my network (e.g. on the public internet) that does a > > lookup for the same host gets redirected to my external ip. > > then i have 80/tcp port-forwarded into the network to the > > 192.168.0.x address... if you understand that. > > If I understand you, your local DNS only revolves for names within your > internal domain. > > Your solution sounds nice as it would solve another of my problems: the > naming of my machine. > Right now I access it using its IP. I could have changed the host file > on all our local machines, but that's not really a good solution. > But it's probably faster than any other as we only have 10-20 machines, > and less than 5 really need access to this server now. > The DNS seems the perfect solution but I was trying to avoid it. > But that seems like I can't. > > But then I probably have to change the network config of all our machines > to point to this local DNS. Am I correct?
Yes, just stick 'nameserver a.b.c.d' in /etc/resolv.conf where a.b.c.d is the address of your local nameserver. There's a bunch of nameservers in Debian. I looked at a few of them, needing a DNS that would be authoritative for the local network and pass everything else on to my ISP if my dialup was up. I found dnsmasq to be the simplest to set up, and it's nice and lightweight. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
