From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 7:59: 4 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 07:59:01 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.icehouse.net (mail.icehouse.net [204.203.53.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AB8337B402 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 07:59:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mars.walker.dom (ppp-273.icehouse.net [204.203.54.43]) by mail.icehouse.net (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with SMTP id HAA21619; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 07:58:40 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: mail.icehouse.net: Host ppp-273.icehouse.net [204.203.54.43] claimed to be mars.walker.dom From: Keith Walker To: Nick Slager Subject: Re: Using BIND in a local, bogus network Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 07:58:17 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <01010418384900.00606@mars.walker.dom> <20010105170744.A66041@albury.net.au> In-Reply-To: <20010105170744.A66041@albury.net.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01010507581701.01946@mars.walker.dom> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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