[c-nsp] ASA Static Translations / DNS Doctoring

Roland Dobbins rdobbins at arbor.net
Fri Jul 17 14:45:43 EDT 2009


On Jul 18, 2009, at 1:08 AM, Clue Store wrote:

> I have several domains pointed various
> ip's in a /27 (public block). I have one internal webserver inside  
> of my
> network. I would like to be able to map the several outside IP's to  
> one
> inside IP of my web server and perform DNS doctoring via the ASA so my
> inside hosts can use a DNS server outside of my network and still be  
> able to
> get to the domains

Not a good idea - an attacker can breathe on it, and it'll fall over,  
instant DoS.  Sticking servers behind firewalls, and NATting them, to  
boot, is extremely poor security practice.

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