Rick,
#Is it possible to have your internal firewall
#network as theinternalname.domain and have the
#external domain the real name as in rogerscable.net?
You could do this but there really isn't any reason that I can think
of. It won't give you any more security and it will be a pain to maintain
and troubleshoot. Generally, I set up an internal DNS server that is
primary for my domain and an external DNS server that is primary for my
domain. The internal DNS server has all of the information for my domain
and is used by my internal users. The external DNS server only has the
domain information that the Internet needs and is used by the Internet.
The external DNS server is the DNS server advertized as my primary on the
Internet. This is called split-dns and is a common setup. Generally you
would place your internal DNS server on the internal network and your
external DNS server on a dmz. You could also have your ISP host your
external DNS server.
If you just have a cable modem and all you want to do is play around
with DNS on your home network then you can just set up a fake DNS server
with a non-advertized domain that your home computers point to for DNS
resolution. The fake DNS server would still be able to answer queries for
from the Internet and no one would query it. You would still be able to
have an entry in your cable companies DNS server for the web server you
want the Internet to get to.
Regards,
Jeffery Gieser
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