DNS server setup
Gerald Combs
gerald at ethereal.com
Thu Jul 10 14:22:12 CDT 2003
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> Oh.. and if you are DSL with PPOE, then you cannot run a server because
> the ip address on your computer is not the one seen by the external
> world. You are NATed by the DSL.
DSL spans layers 1 & 2 (the physical and data link layers). NAT spans
layers 3 & 4 (network and transport). DSL can't force you to use NAT any
more than Ethernet can. If you are being NATted it's becuase your
provider _chose_ to.
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