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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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