Running bind behind Raptor Firewall

Leonardo Rodrigues coelho at persogo.com.br
Wed Aug 2 11:03:42 UTC 2000


At 18:19 01/08/00 -0400, you wrote:

>The root NS information is bogus, obviously. Moreover, the firewall is=20
>answering
>it non-authoritatively, which implies that it originates from either: a) a
>root-zone master file which didn't load properly, or b) a bogus hints=20
>file. How
>can the firewall be resolving Internet names when its root NS data is=20
>hosed? The
>only way I think this could work is by defining "stub" zones for all of the
>TLD's, e.g. "com", "org", "net", the country-code domains, etc. But this is
>really ugly.
>
>Talk to the administrator of the firewall and let them know what effects=
 their
>unusual DNS configuration is having on internal servers which rely on it.

         I=B4ll forward them this email discussion. Anyway, do you know how=
=20
to correctly configure Raptor ? The question is because I=B4ve never used=20
Raptor, and if I can send them "do this, this and this" instead of "fix the=
=20
DNS configuration", they will do it faster.

         Hope hearing from you soon,
         Leonardo Rodrigues




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