From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 01:33:52 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 207141065675 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 01:33:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doverosx@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f225.google.com (mail-fx0-f225.google.com [209.85.220.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1D068FC1B for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2010 01:33:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm25 with SMTP id 25so387437fxm.3 for ; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:33:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=F/GfSezzPOeJkT2z4P1dAgy2x2gozwDTPMrjf0pAjGY=; b=ieqQHAMiU8SvKhkOOKlU7SEgNEt6zWw0PrkJbDADe3Jo9dWmshchKTWn6+K3jTV/gd pC6Grri58RC9qfPdyGgV1RGpKDGiqgZHZCat366ihBWaOfZgu94IGgPUGQqrFnjDjpO8 0RnmjfXVPnG9syly5dtpnN3X2yzfrr/I6aa1g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KT3zUKrQJAHwmr/qbm+MOPyCYEAZ2evoltybyGS5QUj+N/+6C4u4/Es9Q7tnrZp4iA d9JmYmskbnnHxOHWQHbPcqoHnJgBSCHOuIpBCMe32rV4UUr9LuBbneX4cPKt734vBrbo p4oGHjeuEAteZdoaJEMKq0QytMrPjlrJh3w9Q= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.119.20 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Apr 2010 18:33:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201004090034.o390Y0on016839@leka.aloha.com> Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 21:33:50 -0400 Received: by 10.223.63.76 with SMTP id a12mr957059fai.10.1270776830386; Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:33:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Brodey Dover To: mikel king Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Gary Dunn , 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: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:33:52 -0000 Unfortunately, still 17MB. I am going to play around with the sticks of RAM that I have installed to see if there is a chipset/motherboard issue. On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 8:56 PM, mikel king wrote: > > On Apr 8, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Gary Dunn wrote: > >> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:05:12 -0400 mikel king >> wrote: >> >>> 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? >>> >>> >>> 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. >> >> I failed to mention that the same FreeBSD box will provide file and >> printer services via Samba, all clients will be Windows Vista, and there >> will bo no other servers on the downstream network. I cannot rely on cli= ents >> editing their LMHOSTS files ... I need plug and play. Do I need a DNS se= rver >> on the downstream network for Windows clients to connect to Samba? >> -- >> Gary Dunn, Honolulu >> osp@aloha.com >> http://openslate.net/ >> http://e9erust.blogspot.com/ >> Sent from a Newton 2100 via Mail V > > Gary, > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Thanks for the clarification. In this case if it were my n= etwork then > I would roll out both DNS and DHCP on this server. Honestly it will make > your life a hell of a lot easier in the long run, especially if you inten= d > on using WINS resolution for the Windows client via samba. However only > allow the DNS and DHCP services to run on the internal LAN, bind them to = an > internal IP address. > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0You should be fine. > > Cheers, > Mikel King > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >