On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 19:44, D Garside wrote:
My problem is that the outside world cannot see us. I have assigned the two IP addresses given to me by the ISP to the router and outward facing port of my firewall but although I can travel out (therefore the connection is working) nothing can see me. My ISP thinks that the problem is a DNS issue.
I (foolishly?) used my BECTA registered address myschool.LEA.sch.uk which Demon (ISP) know me by. However they argue that because LEA.sch.uk is not registered with anyone no-one has domain authority to forward stuff to me - there is a gap between sch.uk and myschool.LEA.sch.uk.
no third level domains were allocated directly to ISPs, these were retained by Nominet AFAIK, even LEAs who run their own ISP service for schools have to run the domain for each school (fourth level domains), hence Worcestershire currently runs 45 odd domains for it schools
Does this sound reasonable? I wonder if I haven't made a complete hash (pun intended) of my sendmail, DNS etc setup, but I am O'Reillyed out and would welcome advice from a fresh angle. (I half suspect I have gaping security holes the size of Micro$ofts ethical defecit!)
no security holes, just need to check how the domain is currently set up, From a Linux box you can use the 'dig' and 'whois' command. let us know the domain and we can check it out Malcolm
Darren Garside Freshford Primary School
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