Fao, Sean
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 Posted:
Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:20 pm Post subject:
Re: Very New |
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The Chinaman wrote:
| Quote: | Now I wish to put a computer inbetween my network and the internet, to be
used as a firewall etc.
My server now has a second adapter and I think I need to point the address
of this adapter to that
on the 'Firewall computer' (and I assume vice versa)?
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Unless you would like redundancy, you *probably* do not need a second
network card.
| Quote: | I believe it should be done in the DNS .
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I'm not sure what you would think it has to do with DNS. DNS stands for
Domain Name Server. The association between a domain name and its IP
address is configured in a DNS server.
Read up on TCP-IP subnetting and how to configure the default gateway.
You will need to enable routing on your firewall system and then
configure the IP address for the firewall as the default gateway for
your network. If your internal addresses are un-routable via the
Internet, you'll need to look into NAT.
Lastly, I do not believe it's even possible to use a domain name as the
default gateway on a network. A system wouldn't have much luck
resolving the name if the DNS server is on a separate subnet.
What this all boils down to is that (unless I have a severe
misunderstanding of what you hope to accomplish) that your project has
absolutely nothing to do with a DNS server.
Hope this helps,
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Sean |
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Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [
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Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:15 am Post subject:
Re: Very New |
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In news:elA03dsAFHA.2804@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl,
The Chinaman <chinaman_the@hotmail.com> commented
Then Kevin replied below:
| Quote: | Hi,
Just set up my first server environment (ms win srv 2003).
Have connected two clients and things seem to be
proceeding ok.
Now I wish to put a computer inbetween my network and the
internet, to be used as a firewall etc.
My server now has a second adapter and I think I need to
point the address of this adapter to that
on the 'Firewall computer' (and I assume vice versa)?
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It depends on what you mean by "point" if you mean as in gateway address,
you would point the gateway to the NAT device, if the computer you added has
NAT and it is the only way to the internet use it as the gateway.
If you mean as in DNS, that would depend other issues you have not
mentioned, such as, Is this an Active Directory domain environment?
If it is AD, all domain members must use the DNS that supports the AD
domain. Usually this is the Domain Controller, and the Domain Controller
will use its own address for DNS, and no other unless you have other DCs
with DNS.
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Best regards,
Kevin D4 Dad Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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