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Date:      Mon, 30 Dec 2002 11:27:41 +0100
From:      Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
To:        Thomas Connolly <tconnolly@electrosoftsolutions.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: dns
Message-ID:  <20021230102741.GY348@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
In-Reply-To: <200212292219.08315.tconnolly@electrosoftsolutions.com>
References:  <200212292219.08315.tconnolly@electrosoftsolutions.com>

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# tconnolly@electrosoftsolutions.com / 2002-12-29 22:19:08 -0700:
> Hello all.  I have a freebsd box I'm using as a router for my subnet.  I have 
> this freebsd router doing nat and dhcp assinging internal ip addresses for 
> the computers on the network (i.e. 192.168.x.x).  This box is also a web 
> server for a registered domain name.  My probelm is that when someone wants 
> to connect to my web site the dns gives them the internal ip of the FreeBSD 
> box and not the external ip of the router.  Can someone tell me how I get the 
> FreeBSD's dns to point to the external ip address for my doimain?  Thanks 
> much.

    you are talking about the so-called "split horizon", where the
    information returned by the content server differs based on the IP
    of the resolver. configuration is of course software dependent.

    djbdns:

    http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/dns-split-horizon.html

    bind has a facility called "views" which should be able to provide
    similar results.

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