Re: [LUG] IPCOP & BIND

[Peter Walker <peter.walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gary wrote:

> Yes I fully agree that they should move the DNS service elsewhere - in my
> opinion to a pc sat behind the firewall pc (IPCOP if they must) with the
> same drop in IP config, but with port 53 (DNS) forwarded to the internal DNS
> machine ... I've said this to them until I'm blue in the face!!! 
> But exercising political muscle when you have none (even though you may have
> technical muscle); it's nigh on impossible to do! If management want, they
> normally get and don't care about any details outside THEIR outline & spec.
>
>  
Gary,

If you have to have a single box solution take a look at SME Server 
(contribs.org). I haven't used it for a couple of releases but it is 
designed to do everything, including firewall and DNS. I've never used 
the firewall component so I don't know how sophisticated it is.

Cheers,

Pete


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