Robin Mordasiewicz wrote:
On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, V P wrote:
the LAN is linked to the Internet through a router(not a computer).is it
possible to set up a web server in this case?
When you say LAN, one assumes it's a private range IP and hence the
answer is no.
not true. Your external DNS server will resolve to a different ip
address than an internal dns server. The external DNS server resolves to
a public ip address which terminates on your router, which in turn
forwards to your internal web server, which is on your LAN.
A better direction is to research how to set up a DMZ on your router and
put your web server in the DMZ
You can also do it without using a DMZ (From what I've heard, doing a
DMZ is a bad idea, but more research into the topic might be a better
idea). Just forward port 80 (for the web server) and 53 (for DNS) to
your internal computer. To get around the internal/external problem,
Bind will allow you to set up what it calls a view, which is essentially
a way to specify different zone files depending on what network the
request is coming from.
If you need any help figuring out how to do this, I could help you out
with your Bind settings ('cause I currently have my server running
successful website/email servers behind a router).
Justin Willmert
