AW: DNS throug a router

[Philipp Snizek]

> "Mostro" <mostro at adelphia.net> writes:
>
> >I just got a DSL connection at my office and am setting up a
> dmz between the
> >DSL router and my cisco router.. What is the proper way to get name
> >resolution between my internal lan and the DMZ. Also to the internet.
>
> I presume you mean you have a NAT router somewhere.
>
> The usual case is to have an internal and external DNS, where the
> internal server has internal addresses, but will ask the external
> server for domains it doesn't know.
>
> The external server has the external (NAT) addresses.
>
> This way, the same name will work inside or outside, though the
> actual IP address is different.


This would be a possible solution:

int-lan ---- NAT device ---- DMZ ----- DSL Router

Your internal lan is requesting a DNS Cache server which is running on the
NAT device.


HTH