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Add a Split DNS mini-howto -- take 2

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd">
<article>
<!--$Id$-->
<articleinfo>
<title>Simple way to set up Split DNS</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Tom</firstname>
<surname>Eastep</surname>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2008</year>
<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
License</ulink></quote>.</para>
</legalnotice>
</articleinfo>
<section>
<title>What is Split DNS</title>
<para><firstterm>Split DNS</firstterm> is simply a configuration in which
the IP address to which a DNS name resolves is dependent on where the
client is. It is most often used in a NAT environment to insure that
lodcal clients resolve server names to their local RFC 1918 addresses
while external clients resolve the same server names to their public
counterparts.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Why would I want to use Split DNS?</title>
<para>See <ulink url="???">Shorewall FAQ 2</ulink>.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Setting up Split DNS</title>
<para>Setting up Split DNS is extremely simple:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Be sure that your firewall/router can resolve external DNS
names.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Install the <emphasis role="bold">dnsmasq</emphasis> package and
arrange for it to start at boot time.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Add your local hosts to <filename>/etc/hosts</filename> on the
firewall/router using their local RFC 1918 addresses. Here's an
example:<programlisting>#
# hosts This file describes a number of hostname-to-address
# mappings for the TCP/IP subsystem. It is mostly
# used at boot time, when no name servers are running.
# On small systems, this file can be used instead of a
# "named" name server.
# Syntax:
#
# IP-Address Full-Qualified-Hostname Short-Hostname
#
127.0.0.1 localhost
# special IPv6 addresses
::1 localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback
fe00::0 ipv6-localnet
ff00::0 ipv6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ipv6-allnodes
ff02::2 ipv6-allrouters
ff02::3 ipv6-allhosts
127.0.0.2 ursa.shorewall.net ursa
172.20.1.1 linksys.shorewall.net linksys
192.168.0.1 opensuse.shorewall.net opensuse
192.168.0.2 debian.shorewall.net debian
192.168.0.3 ubuntu.shorewall.net ubuntu
192.168.0.4 fedora.shoreawll.net fedora
192.168.0.5 opensuse11.shorewall.net opensuse11
192.168.0.6 centos.shorewall.net centos
192.168.0.7 debian32.shorewall.net debian32
192.168.0.8 fedora9.shorewall.net fedora9
206.124.146.254 blarg.shorewall.net blarg
</programlisting></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Configure your local network hosts to use the firewall/router as
their DNS server. If your local hosts are configured using DHCP, that
is a simple one-line change to the DHCP configuration.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para><emphasis role="bold">And that's it!</emphasis> Your local clients
will resolve those names in the firewall/router's
<filename>/etc/hosts</filename> file as defined in that file. All other
names will be resolved using the firewall/router's Name Server as defined
in <filename>/etc/resolv.conf</filename>.</para>
</section>
</article>