Re: Using DNS servers to query root servers from WAN

2009-07-01 Thread samankaya
Many thanks again Kevin! The reason I decided to use views in the first instance is that I wanted to separate clients who are in my local internal subnet and clients or are requesting information from the public internet. Since I have defined the local subnet 192.168.0.0/23 currently for my w

Re: Using DNS servers to query root servers from WAN

2009-06-30 Thread samankaya
Hmm many thanks Kevin for that! What I am trying to establish is something more like an ISP DNS server set, of course they would probably be doing exactly what you suggested: "If you want to allow a *limited* set of clients on the other side of your NAT to query Internet names, then add t

Using DNS servers to query root servers from WAN

2009-06-30 Thread samankaya
Hi, this is my first post here and I have quite an interesting problem at that! I have migrated my DNS service from Debian Etch Linux to Sun Solaris 9 running the Blastwave version of Bind9. This is a bit hard to explain but basically as default DNS setup in Debian, it installs root servers in