which address to use?

Barry Margolin barry.margolin at level3.com
Wed Sep 10 18:41:35 UTC 2003


In article <bjnq1a$16e7$1 at sf1.isc.org>,  <johnny at n0sq.net> wrote:
>I hope that it's appropriate to post a newbie question here.
>
>I was just reading the HOWTO for creating a DNS server. The HOWTO uses 
>internal network addresses. I do have multiple machines but I was wondering 
>if it's more appropriate to use the static IP from my ISP?
>
>ns              A       24.223.6.198
>
>instead of......
>
>ns              A       192.168.196.2
>
>??

If the server is supposed to be reachable from the general Internet, you
have to use a globally reachable address.

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