DNS beginner question

[Jonathan Chen]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:06:39PM -0400, Michael S wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I am trying to set up a DNS service. I have 2 FreeBSD machines, one's
> web and DNS (that I am setting up) and the other FTP. Both machines
> are behind a router and get local addresses (i.e. 192.168....). If
> DNS, FTP and web ports in the router are open, will I be able to set
> up the DNS in a way such that when someone from the outside types
> www.mydomain.com, he'll be taken to the machine that runs apache, and
> when he types ftp.mydomain.com he'll be taken to the machine which
> runs ftp?

This can be done with the "view" feature in BIND 9; which can be
configured to give different results depending on whether the query is
from the local internal network or from the 'Net.

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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