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Re: domain name: internet vs. intra-net



On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:24:00AM -0600, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 03:17:00AM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> > at the risk of exposing another 'religious' issue--
> > 
> > let's say you have a static IP 12.34.56.78 and a public domain
> > name 'mydomain.org' attached to it.
> > 
> > now you add a private internal lan using 192.168.*.* so your
> > spouse and kids can surf for bomb recipes and porn...
> > 
> > what kind of naming setup do you use for the intRAnet? something
> > totally different from the public access point ("timmy.my.lan"
> > for example) or do you branch off the original public name
> > ("timmy.private.mydomain.org" for example)?
> > 
> > ...and explain your rationale. thanks!
> 
> Think DNS. It doesn't matter what you call your boxen as long as
> DNS information doesn't propagate upstream from your name server.
> The only name(s) you want to publish to the world is the name of
> your public access point.

i've got DNS running. i highly recommend it. everybody ought to
run their own. it's not just a good idea, ....

my question is,

	www.debian-o-rama.tld

is a hypothetical, publicly-available server address, which also
acts as a firewall for my home lan.

within the home lan i've got

	192.168.1.1 -> eth1 (where eth0 serves the public above)
	192.168.1.2 -> another debian monster
	192.168.1.100 -> mac
	192.168.1.200 -> win98

would it be good to use DNS/NAMED/BIND to treat the intra-lan
portion as

	internal.debian-o-rama.tld = 192.168.1.1
	monster.debian-o-rama.tld = 192.168.1.2
	mac.debian-o-rama.tld = 192.168.1.100
	win.debian-o-rama.tld = 192.168.1.200

or is it preferable to create a whole separate name space for the
lan items, such as

	internal.mylan = 192.168.1.1
	monster.mylan = 192.168.1.2
	mac.mylan = 192.168.1.100
	win.mylan = 192.168.1.200

and can you give an example or two on how to use /etc/bind/* to
set that up? (all my attempts give dlint conniptions, though
things seem to work-though-they-wobble, with exceptions.)

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