same way access from LAN and WAN

[Sten Carlsen]

If you had been using Bind, views would have been the answer. I do this
exact setup, not a glitch.

Tieske wrote:
> I've got the following issue;
> My homenetwork is behind a router which is connected to the providers modem,
> my home-lan is in the range 192.168.50.xxx. I registered a domain name
> linked it to my external IP-address (fixed) and configured my router to
> forward the ports to my server, so I have it working succesfully with my
> server; ftp.mydomain.com works perfectly when connecting from the internet.
>
> But... when I get home and fire up my laptop (within my home network, so
> from the same subnet), the only way to connect to the server is via its IP
> address 192.168.50.2 connecting through the domainname no longer works. When
> trying to reach the webserver by domainname for example, I end up on the
> configuration page of the ADSL modem.
>
> I tried using hosts files to fix this, so switching hosts files depending on
> where I am, but for my room mates (anti-techy people) this is not an option. 
> So I decided to install a DNS server on my homeserver (freeware called 
> Treewalk). Many people warned me about the complexity, yet I want to give it 
> a try.
>
> After installing everything worked like before, so I assume the DNS server 
> is working properly. But now I have to make some modifications to the DNS 
> configuration so it will route any request for ftp.mydomain.com to the local 
> IP address 192.168.50.2, without it querying any remote DNS which will 
> probably come up with the external IP address.
>
> Questions;
> 1) How do I register my domain with my DNS server? I read a lot of stuff on 
> the record types etc., but where and how should I put this info?
> 2) I assume I should prevent my DNS server to pass these settings on to any 
> remote DNS server?
>
> Probably these are rather dumb questions for a DNS die-hard, even though I 
> find them rather challenging, so any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
>
>   

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Best regards

Sten Carlsen

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