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Date:      Sat, 14 Aug 1999 07:27:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To:        "David B. Aas" <dave@ciminot.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: FW: Need consulting help with v3.2 firewall
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990814072428.15067B-100000@java.dpcsys.com>
In-Reply-To: <003501bee5d7$33351a00$0fc8a8c0@dave.ciminot.com>

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On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, David B. Aas wrote:
> I am set up as a caching DNS server.

But that only works for "real" IP addresses, it won't help if you
are using RFC1918 private address space. For that you need to run
a primary name server yourself.

You can leave the cache only setup for the Internet at large and
run primary for e.g. 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa at the same time.

Dan


> 
> Here is my named.boot file:
> ####################
> directory /etc/namedb
> primary 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa localhost.rev
> forwarders 206.30.26.10 206.30.27.130
> #####################
> 
> The 2 ips on the forwarders line are the primary and secondary DNS servers
> of my ISP.
> 
> Here is my localhost.rev file:
> ####################
> ;       From: @(#)localhost.rev 5.1 (Berkeley) 6/30/90
> ;       $Id: PROTO.localhost.rev,v 1.4 1997/05/01 21:02:37 ache Exp $
> ;
> ; This file is automatically edited by the `make-localhost' script in
> ; the /etc/namedb directory.
> ;
> 
> @       IN      SOA     gateway.towncountry.net.
> root.gateway.towncountry.net.  (
>                                 19990803        ; Serial
>                                 3600    ; Refresh
>                                 900     ; Retry
>                                 3600000 ; Expire
>                                 3600 )  ; Minimum
>         IN      NS      gateway.towncountry.net.
> 1       IN      PTR     localhost.towncountry.net.
> #######################
> Domain Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
> 
> I set it up as detailed in "The Complete FreeBSD". Am I missing something?
> 
> Dave Aas
> dave@ciminot.com
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Oscar Bonilla [mailto:obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 1999 8:06 PM
> > To: Dan Busarow
> > Cc: David B. Aas; questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> > Subject: Re: FW: Need consulting help with v3.2 firewall
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 04:27:23PM -0700, Dan Busarow wrote:
> > > On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, David B. Aas wrote:
> > > > I cleaned up my rules, and set up the logging. That
> > helped lots. My rules
> > > > had some problems with UDP from the internal net. I fixed those.
> > > >
> > > > I set up a rule to allow all from any to any and ran my
> > POP3 client on my
> > > > network workstations. It still does not work. I am
> > thinking that it is
> > > > something to do with my DNS.
> > > >
> > > > My console still gives me an error message "servername
> > > > popper[number]:(v2.53) unable to get canonical name of
> > client, err=0"
> > > >
> > > > Should I post my DNS settings? I have checked them over
> > several times, and
> > > > don't see anything wrong. I had it set for a secondary
> > DNS server, and I
> > > > changed it to a caching DNS server as a troubleshooting
> > technique. I am
> > > > following the discussion in "The Complete FreeBSD".
> > > >
> > > > Am I missing something?
> > >
> > > You need to provide DNS, at least in-addr.arpa, for your internal
> > > hosts.
> > >
> >
> > definitely. You should provide forward DNS as well, at least for the
> > internal network.
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > -Oscar
> 

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 Dan Busarow                                                  949 443 4172
 Dana Point Communications, Inc.                            dan@dpcsys.com
 Dana Point, California  83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4   8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82



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