Subject: Re: Primary-Secondary DNS Issue
bthundereagle@aidea.org
Date: Wed Oct 02 2002 - 02:16:44 AKDT
That sounds good, how can I check to see if my Internal DNS server is set up to
do that? Because I am almost certain it isn't unless it is an automatic thing.
And what are you doing up so late anyways?
Brian ThunderEagle
- bthundereagle@aidea.org
- furbs@swjedi.net
- http://www.swjedi.net
Quoting Scott Johnson <sjohnson@gci.net>:
> have you not specified any forwarder addresses in your internal server?
>
> I have an internal DNS server for my domain as well. I simply have my DNS
> server configured that if it doesn't have the record the client requests,
> it
> goes to a list of external servers to get the addy. That's how DNS is
> supposed to work.
>
> It resolves internal addresses fine because the internal server think's
> it's
> authoritive over my internal domain (because it has the records locally),
> then any external site it goes and fetches from Internet Alaska (or GCI if
> IAI doesn't respond).
>
> I then have a seperate external server providing the external IP's for my
> domain.
>
> In my DHCP leases, I only specify the internal DNS server.
>
> Scott
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <bthundereagle@aidea.org>
> To: <aklug@aklug.org>
> Sent: October 02, 2002 01 55
> Subject: Primary-Secondary DNS Issue
>
>
> >
> > I have an internal DNS server. Because I have to use the IP's of the
> servers
> > from home. It's set up and it works properly. Now I also have to use the
> > firewall to get external DNS info, which also works. However, I have a
> few
> > issues, and issues within issues:
> >
> > When using 192.168.0.10(gateway to Internet) as the dns server:
> > * I can browse the internet just fine.
> > * I cannot access my servers because they are using the external IP
> > address.
> > * I also cannot download anything from the web. I can browse sites,
> but
> > cannot download anything from any web site. It either just sits there and
> times
> > out, or I get the error "The requested site is unavailable or not found."
> >
> > When using 192.168.0.1(My internal DNS):
> > * I simply cannot access any external resources. Or sometimes I can,
> but
> > almost always I can't.
> >
> > When using both:
> > 1) Auto set from the DHCP server
> > * It seems it is only sending me the Secondary DNS server
> > (192.168.0.10 for external.)
> > 2) Set manually in windows
> > * The internet will work indefinatly
> > * My internal network DNS works fine for a little while. But
> after a
> > short time I have noticed that it starts using the External DNS server
> info
> > instead of my internal.
> >
> > The final wanted setup that I need to figure out how to do:
> > I want my Internal DNS server and External DNS address to both
> always
> be
> > sent to my Windows users when they get an IP lease. I then want my
> Primary
> DNS
> > server to be just that, and have precedence over the External. If an
> address
> > does not exist in the internal DNS server then use the external address.
> And
> > the download issue, that just leaves me cluless at the moment.
> >
> > I know that is a lot to ask for, but it's all tied together and I am
> trying
> > very hard to get this all working properly. My setup is like so: I have a
> Samba
> > PDC running on RedHat 7.3 and finally got it to allow users to join and
> log on
> > to the domain. So these problems may have some tie into the PDC, but I do
> not
> > know. My gateway(192.168.0.10) to the internet is a Smoothwall Firewall,
> it is
> > also the DHCP server. My web server(192.168.0.1) is also my internal DNS
> server
> > running RedHat 7.3.
> >
> >
> > Brian ThunderEagle
> > - bthundereagle@aidea.org
> > - furbs@swjedi.net
> > - http://www.swjedi.net
> >
> >
> >
> >
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