First off, contact network solutions and get the DNS servers changed, how they are changed depebnds upon what kind of DNS server you wish to setyup. is it the primary for your internal network? Or is it a secondary? Perhaps it is a caching only DNS server, you decide how much risk you are willing to take, and how well your skilled in locking down such an exploitable service as this and then clue network solutions to point others in the proper direction.
You might want to order a copy of the o'reilly's DNS and Bind manual and readup on the various servers tyes and the implications of each in practical use. If your gateway to the internet/your ISP is prone to outages of any length, beaware that making yourself the primary DNS server for your internal network might take a bit to start proper resolutions once service is backup, read the DNS and Bind manual for reasons as to why this might be an issue to consider. The manual should also clue you as to the types of protocol traffic DNS feeds upon, both TCP and UDP, and the ports each protocol might try to feed upon as the hungry little named server gobbles up bandwidth. Thanks, Ron DuFresne On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Rick Brown wrote: > I'm still struggling trying to get my internal DNS > server to forward requests to my ISP's DNS server. I > can access web sites via the IP address but I can't > get DNS resolution to work. I can ping the ISP's DNS > servers from my DNS servers and I have the ISP's DNS > servers set up as forwarders for my internal DNS > servers. I am allowing UPD and TCP 53 from the my DNS > servers to the ISP's servers. What am I missing? > When I do an nslookup on something like www.google.com > it immediately responds that my DNS server doesn't > know what it is. Is this some start of authority > thing? The internal domain is registered and the name > servers are listed by Network Solutions as my ISP's > name servers. I'm stuck and it's putting me in a real > bind. PLEASE HELP! > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Send your FREE holiday greetings online! > http://greetings.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Firewalls mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation." -- Johnny Hart ***testing, only testing, and damn good at it too!*** OK, so you're a Ph.D. Just don't touch anything. _______________________________________________ Firewalls mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnac.net/mailman/listinfo/firewalls
