where to begin...guess I should first describe setup and what we want to do.
current setup:
SDSL(w/ 4 static ips 66.xx.xx.16-19) -> Smoothwall 2.0 Linux firewall/gateway(3 nics, serves 2 networks-servers(static ip) and clients(dhcp)).
the Smoothwall box is configured to pass any http/s, ftp, ssh requests ending in a .18 or .19 to the server network where we have 2 servers(their actual static ips are 192.168.10.100-101). Smoothwalls' external ip is .16. Smoothwall was translating the 66.xx.xx.18 to 192.168.10.100, and 66.xx.xx.19 to 192.168.10.101
before we started to setup BIND everything worked correctly. we could serve up http/s, ftp and ssh with no problems. clients and outside could connect to any service we had started on either of the servers.
installed BIND on the .18 server and it successfuly pulled the DNS listings from the root servers, and for about a week, the DNS had propogated back to the root servers so that pinging ourdomian.com was pointing to our server. during this time, the .18 server would not serve anything whether we specified ip or name-based ip, trailing slash or not...we couldnt even surf from that box.
suddenly, pinging the domain name from an outside box would point to a completely different ip(wasnt even a ip belonging to our isp) and we could suddenly surf from the box(we can serve from the box, but only if specifying 66.xx.xx.18 ip).
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