RE: Proper naming of gateway host

[Steve Shockley <Steve.Shockley@Scala-NA.com>]

I've found the easiest solution is to run two DNS servers, one for inside
(NAT) IPs and one for outside (assuming you are your domain's SOA).

Port 113 is used by identd (I think).  I've found that my mail server always
gets an incoming request on 113 if the other end's *nix, and on 137 if it's
NT, when it initiates an outbound connection.  Essentially, it's the machine
on the other end saying "Who the heck are you?"


-----Original Message-----
From: Gary O'Neill [mailto:gary@hedgehog.dhs.org]
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 3:56 PM
To: misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Proper naming of gateway host


I've been curious about this for some time now:

My gateway machine acts as a mail and dns server and performs NAT.  It
is known in dns as hedgehog.dhs.org to the outside world and as
isthmus.xanth internally.

As the box can only have one hostname, which should it be?
It currently considers itself to be hedgehog.dhs.org.
Also, which hostname should the qmail 'me' file be set to?

Thanks,

Gary

PS:  On a tangent, what is the auth port (113) used for?