Redhat 6 Bind/Wink 2k IIS DHCP

[Barry Margolin]

In article <bo6n29$2mkq$1 at sf1.isc.org>,  <Mark_Andrews at isc.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Is it possible to use a NAT for DNS? I have a redhat 6 box with bind
>> on it. I am not sure the version. I was thrown in the middle of this
>> so please bear with me. 
>> 
>> I have setup a NAT with our ISP to point my DNS's public IP to a
>> private one behind our firewall. I then set the DNS server with a
>> private IP. My question is can my DNS server still be seen by the
>> world with using NAT? I punched the appropriate holes in the firewall
>> for it.
>> 
>> TIA
>
>	It depends upon whether your NAT munges the DNS content or
>	not.  Some do, some don't.

And some do both.  I think PIX performs translation in ordinary queries,
but not in zone transfers.  This gets pretty confusing; I've noticed
private addresses in the zone files on our slave servers, but when I
manually query the customer's master I see public addresses.

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Barry Margolin, barry.margolin at level3.com
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