DNS and intranet security

[Barry Margolin]

In article <GIcLOLVRw9Q7rhDCbWKgnB+mGQVQ at 4ax.com>,
Mark Olbert  <mark at arcabama.com> wrote:
>On 18 Oct 1999 09:58:33 -0700, "Diego" <dcima at rete039.it> wrote:
>
>>Scenario:
>>One linux box (RH 6.0, Samba 2.0.3, Bind 8)
>>two win98 clients
>>
>>This is my small intranet at home. The linux box acts as file server and
>>gateaway to the Internet for two Win98.
>>I have set up bind 8 to have my own DNS (just for fun and because I need to
>>point to different forwarders i.e. different ISPs).
>>
>A bit off topic, but you may need to run two different instances of
>named, if you plan on using name to resolve your internal addresses
>(if you just use hosts it's not an issue).

That's only necessary if you're doing split DNS, where the machine is also
a public DNS server.  But as he said later in his message, he doesn't allow
DNS queries from the Internet, so it's obvously not a registered DNS
server.

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