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Subject: Re: firewalls
From: The Unseen <ian @ south-border . com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 13:48:21 -0500
To: "Jan Klabacka" <jkl @ telenor . cz>
Cc: webmaster @ prismagroup . ch (Christian Bianchi), firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 19 Feb 1997 13:26:04 +0100." <199702191210 . NAA27985 @ server . null>

In message <199702191210 .
 NAA27985 @
 server .
 null>, 
"Jan Klabacka" slapped a few random keys to produce:
>On 19 Feb 97 at 9:10, Christian Bianchi wrote:
>

<snip>

>DNS - not the most important concerning security, lots of
>possibilities, pretty complex relating to sendmail configuration for
>internal domain: My Firewall runs primary DNS for public names, acting
>as forwarder for internal DNS, which is primary for internal domain.
>/etc/resolv.conf on firewall should lead to full information about
>internal domain (i.e. having firewall as first, internal DNS as second
>- necessary for sendmail if internal structure of mail servers is
>somehow more complex). 
>
>I guess it should be possible to run two DNS on firewall somehow
>(??), but I did not tried even to think about it. Problem is that if
>you have internal hosts with internal names and these hosts are
>inaccessible from public space, it should not be announced even in DNS
>- so that if this DNS should be primary for your whole domain, you
>will need also internal DNS as described. If firewall's DNS is not
>going to be primary for domain and you do not need to screen your
>internal names from outside users (lots of discussions about it), than
>it is enough to have only this DNS.

And install packet filters to aid in protecting DNS/others...

The UnSeen


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