From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 8 21:05:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 849E51065742 for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 21:05:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikel.king@olivent.com) Received: from mail.olivent.com (mail.olivent.com [75.99.82.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 082CF8FC0C for ; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 21:05:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.olivent.com (Kerio Connect 7.0.0 patch 1) (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher AES128-SHA (128 bits)); Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:05:11 -0400 References: <201004082058.o38KwuSI019881@leka.aloha.com> Message-Id: From: mikel king To: "Gary Dunn" In-Reply-To: <201004082058.o38KwuSI019881@leka.aloha.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:05:12 -0400 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Does NAT require DNS (named)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2010 21:05:24 -0000 On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: > Continuing the saga of building a wireless access point, what is the > best way to provide DNS service to the dowstream network? Seems like > all I need is a simple pass-through. For that named seems like > overkill. Anyone have an /etc/named/named.conf that does that? > > > -- > Gary Dunn, Honolulu > osp@aloha.com > http://openslate.net/ > http://e9erust.blogspot.com/ > Sent from a Newton 2100 via Mail V Depends on how your internal LAN is configured. Generally if there are no internal servers then you can forgo deploying a DNS server. Simply setup your firewall IPFW or pf or whatever you are using to allow clients to go out to the net and look names up. You will likely need a dhcp server though so that your wireless clients can auto-discover the appropriate network settings, but you can elect to do that manually as well if it's your desire. Regards, Mikel King CEO, Olivent Technologies Senior Editor, BSD News Network Columnist, BSD Magazine skype:mikel.king http://olivent.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mikelking http://twitter.com/mikelking