does your pub dns machine have any record of ip-to-name or vice versa of your private dns machine? not necessarily in dns tables, but perhaps in hosts? also, i assume you are running bind, right? marco ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Harrop" To: Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 11:04 AM Subject: DNS and 2 NICs > I've got a DNS server that has two NIC's installed. The reason why is > because it has to act as a firewall for a few PC's so one adapter is > public and one is private. The DNS information on the PC is for the > public side only. The internal DNS is a seperate server. When the name > for itself is used out in the internet world sometimes it tries to use the > private NIC's IP. That's not even configured in the bind server! Hmm.. > Any ideas? I've already turned the listen-on var to the public IP. > > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >