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Title: Public DNS with 4.1
Post by: Evan on February 27, 2001, 09:53:26 PM

I am having a problem setting up public DNS.  The notes I have found help for setting DNS up with 4.0, however I believe e-smith has changed the templates around.  

Any help would be appreciated.

Evan Schmitke

Title: Re: Public DNS with 4.1
Post by: Charlie Brady on February 27, 2001, 09:56:05 PM

Evan wrote:
>
> I am having a problem setting up public DNS.  The notes I
> have found help for setting DNS up with 4.0, however I
> believe e-smith has changed the templates around.

Please see:

 http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=10264.msg38695#msg38695

Regards

Charlie

Title: Re: Public DNS with 4.1
Post by: Evan on February 27, 2001, 10:01:33 PM

Well, I guess my company won't be purchasing e-smith.  We need a total solution.

Thanks anyway,

Evan.

Title: Re: Public DNS with 4.1
Post by: Gordon Rowell on February 28, 2001, 08:19:03 AM

Evan wrote:
>
> Well, I guess my company won't be purchasing e-smith.

It might be helpful if you realised the reasoning behind the DNS setup.

It is possible to add public DNS to e-smith, and people have done this with
relative ease,  but there are many other issues involved, including security
and robustness of your DNS configuration.

> We need a total solution.

There is no requirement to host your DNS on the same machines on which
you host your web site or mail.  Most e-smith users have a single server, and
you cannot run a single DNS server for a domain.

There have also been a spate of DNS attacks which are possible with a public
DNS server, but are not possible with the caching and local DNS server
configuration shipped with e-smith.

If you would like to discuss this further, maybe you could provide some
detail of your requirements to info@e-smith.com which is the most
appropriate place for presales queries.

Thanks,

Gordon