Clarification on roles of networking components.
Flaschen, Matthew S
matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Wed Mar 4 16:46:10 UTC 2009
> If he has internal servers that local hosts need access to.
> For example. If he is running an Netbios server and the clients need to
> access shares on it.
Right.
> He does not want the world to know about this NAS,
Obviously.
> plus it probably has an RFC1918 address.
I would definitely recommend a local-only address for the local services.
> So with a local BIND server, he would set up an Internal view.
He /could/ do that but you haven't said why he should. If he wants his DNS/DHCP server connected to the outside internet, I would recommend he get two ethernet cards, eth0 and eth1, then configure dnsmasq to only serve on only the local interface. Note that this doesn't require any DNS-specific configurations. It is inherently simple and secure.
> Perhaps he has an internal WiKi. I can go on with internal servers that
> need name resolution.
I think he wants name resolution for all local hosts (why not?).
> He can maintain all of this in hosts files on each
> client as he seems to have done, or he can run his own internal DNS
> server with an internal view.
Nowhere do you say why the complexity of BIND is necessary. He would be served very well (no pun intended) with a far simpler DNS implementation.
Matt Flaschen
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