Re: DNS question

On Friday 05 March 2004 11:44, Jason Corcoran wrote:
> I got myself a broadband connection and have set up a smoothwall 2.0
> firewall, with a Green Red and Orange(DMZ). Say I have a domain
> (example.com) can I set the DNS servers for example.com to my smoothwall
>   Red zone ip and have smoothwall redirect it to a server in my DMZ zone?
> if so is it just a matter of modifying the hosts file on the smooth wall
> to include to DMZ ip ..
>

I think you are a mite confused, or else you have not stated what you need 
properly. Are you trying to run a DNS service for example.com?, is 
example.com a public domain, or just a local one?

What is it that you need to do?

> i.e.
> 192.168.1.1   example.com
>
>
> and do I just the allow port forwarding on the smoothwall to the above
> ip for the services I want to use ??
>
>
> I think I am over simplifying how this is done. I have goggled and most
> of the returns are for setting up dynamic dns.
>
> Any pointers to docs or experiences would be grately received.
>
> Jason.
>
>
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