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- Jeff

On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 19:22, Bob Toxen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 10:44:33AM -0500, Cordell, Ron wrote:
> > Hi all,
> 
> > I was hoping to draw on your expertise to get an idea of some best
> > practices for DNS. 
> 
> > I'm trying to determine if it is best to have one DNS server, or
> > multiple DNS servers for an environment. The environment consists of a
> > few hosts in a DMZ, with many hosts behind a firewall (behind the DMZ).
> > The hosts behind the firewall are divided up into vLANs, and are in
> > several subdomains. Does it make sense to put a single DNS server in the
> > DMZ, and use that, or would you recommend putting the server elsewhere?
> > If machine resources are scarce, I don't want to have to create a lot of
> > DNS servers.
> 
> > I appreciate any suggestions.
> If your firewall is good, i.e., someone on the Internet cannot spoof
> packets to appear to come from your DNS server, then one DNS server
> (or a pair for redundancy) in the DMZ should suffice, assuming it is
> running on a hardened Linux or UNIX system.
> 
> Of course, you'll want to ensure that your internal DNS entries cannot be
> obtained by anyone from the Internet.  Of course, properly configuring
> a DNS server is non-trivial.  You'll also want to ensure that it's kept
> up-to-date w.r.t. security patches.
> 
> > -ronc
> 
> Bob Toxen
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