Hostname and NAT questions

David Simpson David.Simpson at goodmanfielder.com.au
Thu Mar 7 03:59:45 UTC 2002


Greetings

I'd like to pass a scenario by you all to check if you see any problems
arising.

External companies currently manage our DNS. I wish to set up BIND 8.3.1 on
Win2k in-house
to act as the primary name server for our zones.

The Win2k machine's name has to conform to our corporate standard and as
such will have
a "not so pretty" name such as "qdornau07.domain.com".  I'd like to refer
to the server in all
DNS references as "ns.domain.com".

Additionally, this server has an assigned IP of 202.x.x.x which is a
routable address through
our Telco B secondary ISP link. However traffic normally routes down our
Telco B primary ISP
link and is NAT'd IP address to IP address at the router to a 62.x.x.x
address.

So as the primary for our domains, the zone record says:
;
$TTL 86400
@    IN   SOA  ns.domain.com.      admin.domain.com. (
                              2002030207            ; serial number
                              10800        ; refresh
                              3600         ; retry
                              3600000      ; expire
                              86400      ) ; minimum TTL

@    IN   A         62.x.x.x
@    IN   NS        ns.domain.com.

ns   IN   A         62.x.x.x
;

I'm mostly concerned that the "real" Win2K name may clash with the zone
information and
also the server is advertising itself as a different IP address from which
it is configured.

I've never set up this configuration before so can anyone see any issues
with doing this
or can you provide any suggestions or examples?

Cheers

David Simpson



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