Search Again: Re: How to set up 2xQDNS 3.5 to give local adresses to local users From: Men & Mice Support Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2002 Time: 4:39:53 pm There are several solutions. A few are presented here. One solution is to maintain two separate sets of DNS data, one for internal use and one for public consumption, on separate servers. You would need to be sure that you never connect to both servers (or both sets of servers) at the same time. You would only need one internal-use server. Another solution would be to give all your internal users a "search domain" or "default domain" in their TCP/IP settings. For example, you could configure them all to use "local" as their search domain, and then create a zone called "mediafront.se.local" that looks exactly like "mediafront.se", except it uses the internal IP addresses. The best solution (IMHO) is to replace your firewall with one that does two-way NAT, also known as local NAT, or source NAT and destination NAT (SNAT and DNAT). There are several available, including at least some Netopia products, some XSense products, and a couple of software solutions. The fun part is, they may not say that they do this in their documentation. The point of two-way NAT is, you can connect from an internal IP address to a port-mapped port on the NAT server, and then to another internal IP address, and the connection works just fine. The NAT server takes care of all the details. ____________________________________________________________________ Chris Buxton Men & Mice support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy At 8:46 AM +0200 10/9/02, Mats Jansson wrote: >Hi! > >We have a lokal network with Web- and mail-server inside the firewall. >Everything is working fine for everyone outside the firewall byt the people >inside the firewall can=B4t type the server names, they must type the IP=B4= s to >reach this services. >How do I set up the servers so the local users get a local adress and all >global users get the global IP adress? > > >****************************************************** >Mats Jansson >Mediafront, Skovde Sweden

Messages In This Thread: How to set up 2xQDNS 3.5 to give local adresses to local users by Mats Jansson on Oct 8, 2002 at 11:47:44 pm Re: How to set up 2xQDNS 3.5 to give local adresses to local users by Men & Mice Support on Oct 9, 2002 at 4:39:53 pm