[oclug]Working towards DSL mail server

[Tim Hosking]

On 16/11/02 12:19 am, "Brian Johnson" <bjohnson at jecinc.on.ca> wrote:

> It looks as though we will be switching from Bell HSE to Istop (with a static
> IP)
> as step one in my efforts to run our own mail server for our domain (we've
> been
> running a mail server for our LAN using fetchmail and a dump email account)
> 
> I've been playing with Bind and DHCP (we were already using DHCP for our LAN)
> and I
> think I have that part working - a few days of testing will tell
> 
> I'm new to Bind - we were using our ISP DNS servers as our LAN DNS servers
> since
> our LAN was small enough to just use hosts files
> 
> If we need to run Bind anyway, I've set it up as a caching name server and a
> LAN
> name server with dynamically updated entries for the workstations using DHCP
> 
> Is it practical to use BIND to serve both external (internet requests for the
> domain) and the internal LAN?

Absolutely.

> Any tips for issues I should beware of

You may want to read up on creating a split DNS configuration ... There are
some good examples in the Bind 9 Administrators Reference Manual. Bind is
also one of the few servers that knows how to run properly in a chroot jail,
so it's worth doing for a little bit of added security.

-- 
Tim Hosking