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Subject: split-dns-configuration
From: "Bley, Hans" <Hans . Bley @ stk . bayern . de>
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 17:08:04 +0100
To: "'firewalls @ greatcircle . com'" <firewalls @ greatcircle . com>

We have a huge intranet with internet-connectivity via an
application-level-proxy-firewall!

We also have an internal-web-cache-server and split-dns.
Now we discuss on how to configure split-dns.
Version 1: with forwarding
The internal dns-server ( not identical with the firewall-computer) has
a forwarder-statement and slave-statement to the external-dns-server in
the internet.
So the client-pcs can resolve each adress in the intranet and the
internet by itself.

Version 2: without forwarding
The internal dns-server cannot resolve Internet-adresses !!
It can only be done by the proxy at the firewall-computer. So the
application at the inside-pc must work with proxy and
can not resolve internet-adresses by itself.

Which configuration is better ?
Will everything work with version 2 (no forwarding) ?

It is even more complicated because we will have to
application-level-firewalls (cascaded).
The first firewall sends the traffic to the second firewall and from
there to the internet and vice versa.

Bley Hans
Bayerische Staatskanzlei

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