[c-nsp] Best practice to put a DNS server at same lan segment as main internet gateway

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Wed Jun 22 04:28:57 EDT 2005


> What ever happened to having a server that is not only hardened at the OS
> level, but also on a DMZ with publicly reachable (non-NATed) address space
> that is behind a stateful firewall?

the complexity produced too many problems and smart folk stopped
doing that.

if the server only runs a very restricted set of services, what is
the job of the firewall other than to add another kinky set of things
to go wrong?

randy



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