[Gllug] Odd routing problem

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Sun Feb 3 20:51:09 UTC 2008


On 2 Feb 2008, Anthony Newman told this:

> John Winters wrote:
>> You need to set up separate DNS entries for internal and external use. 
>> You thus access it as imap.mydomain.org which when you're outside gives 
>> your public IP address and when you're inside gives the private IP 
>> address of the relevant machine.
>
> ...or use the hosts file for that which it was intended. Slit-horizon 
> DNS for home use is a little over-specified :)

I have split-horizon DNS with DDNS updates with a total of three
physical machines. It's useful for virtual machines and wireless
networks, and, hell, it's the only way I'm ever likely to get experience
of this sort of thing in a non-nailbiting situation.

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