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10.3: Strange DNS behavior and workaround
Authored by: kevinv on Dec 10, '03 04:39:33PM

never use an internal domain that resolves to an external domain! Especially if you don't own that domain name. This can lead to security leaks of information (especially on laptops that leave the internal network).

I recommend either making sure you own the domain name you are using internally (i.e. company.com for external and company.org for internal, if you own company.org) or (my preferred method) creating your own top level domain (i use .internal, so that all my internal machines are fooo.company.internal)

Just don't use .local. That screws up rendezvous.

kevin



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10.3: Strange DNS behavior and workaround
Authored by: clownburner on Dec 11, '03 08:29:52PM

Good point; our internal DNS address does NOT resolve into a public domain.. the problem is that 'com.org' DOES resolve, and Apple is silly for attempting to do DNS lookups in this non-standard and wacky way.



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