dns server behind a firewall with a non routed ip?

[Brad Davis]

Hi All,

I'm attempting to setup bind 8.2.3.

I have it behind a router, on a box with an ip of 192.168.2.2 and I'm
forwarding port 53 from the router to this box. For some reason bind isn't
answering any of the dns requests from the outside world.

At first I couldn't do a 'nslookup - 192.168.2.2', only a 'nslookup -
127.0.0.1'.. but then I create a reverse dns zone for 192.168.2 and added an
entry for .2. then I could do an 'nslookup - 192.168.2.2'. So I setup a
slave zone for the external ip address of my router and copied that dns info
over.. thinking that if I had that info I could do use it from outside my
network. Well now that I did that bind will respond but it changes the ip of
what the host is to the external ip of my router. So this is what I get:
note the ips and the server name have been changed.

microsoft.com
Server:  my.server.com
Address:  12.34.56.78

Name:    microsoft.com
Addresses:  12.34.56.78, 12.34.56.78, 12.34.56.78, 12.34.56.78, 12.34.56.78


any ideas on why this is happening? and how I could set this up better?


Thanks,
Brad