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Date:      Fri, 5 Jan 2001 07:58:17 -0800
From:      Keith Walker <kew@icehouse.net>
To:        Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using BIND in a local, bogus network
Message-ID:  <01010507581701.01946@mars.walker.dom>
In-Reply-To: <20010105170744.A66041@albury.net.au>
References:  <01010418384900.00606@mars.walker.dom> <20010105170744.A66041@albury.net.au>

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On Thursday 04 January 2001 10:07 pm, Nick Slager wrote:
> Thus spake Keith Walker (kew@icehouse.net):
> > In my perfect world, the firewall would have a named running that would
> > be a domain master for the bogus network, would cache "real" addresses,
> > and just generally, DTRT.
> >
> > I've had *some* success with this, but I cannot get the nameserver to
> > quit forcing dial-outs, keeping the modem connected almost 24/7.
>
> You might want to look into userland PPP's filters to stop the auto dial
> on DNS lookups. Have a look at the examples in /usr/share/examples/ppp.
>

I thought about that, but wouldn't that pretty much kill the name lookups? I 
mean, if a name wasn't cached, then the lookup by named wouldn't unless the 
modem-link was already established since ppp wouldn't auto-dial out on a 53 
packet. Or did I miss something here?

-- 
Keith Walker
kew@icehouse.net
PGP Key: http://www.icehouse.net/kew/public-key.pgp


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