From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 22 2:58:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A436237B401 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 02:58:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from so@server.i-clue.de) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id MAA31452; Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:07:05 +0200 Message-ID: <3B331731.875ED01B@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:00:17 +0200 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rick Hamell Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Secondary DNS References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rick Hamell schrieb: > > What is the best way to setup secondary DNS? I have DSL w/ a > static IP in my firewall/router. That machine is setup as the primary DNS > server for my domain. Can I simply setup a 2nd machine inside the firewall > to be my secondary? Or do I need a static IP for it also? If you plan to connect to your secondary from your internal network only, yes, the DNS should be put inside your net. The contrary is true for making your DNS more reliable for the Internet -- to achive that, the secondary should be put on the outside. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message