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It can be pretty easy, actually, depending on your setup.
Re: nat server setup for a newbee
From: Men & Mice Support
Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2002
Time: 11:21:39 pm
Suppose you have one DNS server for internal use, with someone else
handling the public version of your DNS data, and you just want to
create enough DNS data so that internal users can:
- use your Mac OS X Server services, and
- get to the public Internet.
You'll need to create two zones, one forward and one reverse. Choose
a name for your forward zone, such as
"intra.noblehighschool.k12.me.us". The name of your reverse zone will
be automatic, determined by the internal subnet you're using.
In the forward zone, you'll need:
- an NS record pointing to a name of your server,
- A records for the various names of your server, and
- at least one A record for each and every IP address in use on your intranet.
For example (using "zone.name." as the name of your forward zone):
zone.name. NS ns.zone.name.
ns.zone.name. A 10.0.0.2
zone.name. A 10.0.0.2
www.zone.name. A 10.0.0.2
pop.zone.name. A 10.0.0.2
smtp.zone.name. A 10.0.0.2
webmail.zone.name. A 10.0.0.2
fc.zone.name. A 10.0.0.2
file.zone.name. A 10.0.0.2
library-01.zone.name. A 10.0.1.1
library-02.zone.name. A 10.0.1.2
et cetera.
You can use the Assistant to create the reverse zone based on your
forward zone.
Now suppose you also want your server to host the public domain name
for your school. That can be handled by a new forward zone. (There
are other possible solutions, too.) You would create a zone of the
appropriate name and give it records like these:
zone.name. NS ns.zone.name.
ns.zone.name. A 192.168.1.1 ; put in the public IP address
zone.name. MX 10 mx.zone.name.
mx.zone.name. A 192.168.1.1
followed by A records for any other domain names you want to use for
your public IP address.
____________________________________________________________________
Chris Buxton Men & Mice
support@menandmice.com Making DNS Easy
At 1:23 PM -0500 10/29/02, Kim Young wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I am new to DNS and therefore this list. I have to start from
>scratch setting up a DNS server on an OS X server with 10.1.5 on it.
>We run in a private address space behind a NAT server.
>
>I have started looking at the literature but have not found any info
>to help me with setting up DNS in these conditions. I have Cricket
>Lou's book on DNS and the docs that came with Quick DNS but neither
>of these says a thing about the alterations that need to be made
>when you want to operate in a private domain with connectivity to
>the rest of the world.
>
>Any one doing this? Any one know of any literature that explains how
>to do this?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Kim Young
>Net Manager
>Noble High School
>388 Somersworth Rd.
>No. Berwick ME 03906
>(207) 676-2843 ext 2168
>repairs@sad60.k12.me.us
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