How should I configure internal and external DNS servers

Marco mm at dorfdsl.de
Sat Nov 4 06:00:02 UTC 2023


Am 04.11.2023 15:03 schrieb Nick Tait via bind-users:

> I only included this because the idea had been put forward already.
> But even if the logistics of assigning public IPv6 addresses to your 
> internal hosts was palatable to you, you'd also want to think about 
> whether you are comfortable making that information (i.e. the IPv6 
> addresses used for internal servers) publicly available? I think most 
> organisations wouldn't want to do that?

Firewalls exist to block incoming traffic.
It is also possible to create a internal.example.org domain and only
allow queries from your own network, if you really want to hide DNS.

Security by obscurity isn't a good security concept.


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