Bind DNS Help

[charles]

Mike Ross wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> First please excuse my lack of understanding towards BIND as it is something
> I have not had much dealing with in the past.

no problem, asking questions is how we learn.

a paraphrase of the issue,
“
I have a routing problem that I would like to fix using DNS.
When trying to use the world routable ip for our local web servers
internal packets for port 80 do not get shunted off to
our web server due to the fact that we have a single
ip, and a web based administrative front end
for our “router” running on port 80.
“
(I hope I got it mostly right)
perhaps you could try these steps.

Get an additional ip from your provider,
and use that for your web server

Change the internal admin port on your “router”
from 80 to another under used port.

Use a host file to have all your machines point to
the internal ip for an external machine name.

Setup an http proxy that knows where to get things.

If you MUST fix this via DNS...
You could set up a DNS/bind box that has the info for
the zones in question www.sample.co.uk
would have an A record that would point to your
internal ip, as would  www.sample6.co.uk ,
and www.sample66.co.uk and so on.

The rest of the zone would reflect how it is in reality,
Ie  sample.co.uk      in mx 127.0.0.1
etc etc.

IMHO, setting up a DNS/BIND server to workaround
a routing problem that you have some control
over is not the best way.

-charles