Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 20:29:52 -0600 From: Alan Weber <aaweber@austin.rr.com> To: Jeff Yeo <j.yeo@attcanada.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How-to for simple DNS? Message-ID: <19990313202952.A1850@austin.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <009c01be6dbd$48993800$0a64a8c0@homepc>; from Jeff Yeo on Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 05:52:11PM -0800 References: <009c01be6dbd$48993800$0a64a8c0@homepc>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 05:52:11PM -0800, Jeff Yeo wrote: --> I am setting up a firewall (using natd and ipfw) between --> an internal LAN and my ISP. I discovered that the internal --> PCs cannot use the ISP DNS servers through natd (I suppose --> this is a given for those of you who are more experienced). --> If I do have to set up DNS on the firewall, I just want the DNS --> on the firewall to forward any local requests to the ISP DNS --> and return the results. I've got limited resources on this box --> (disk and RAM) and don't want to load it up too too much. I --> don't really need to do maintain any DNS entries for hosts --> on the local network, and don't want to "publish" any entries --> externally either. Guess I'm looking for more of a DNS proxy --> than a server. What does limited ram and disk mean? I am using a DNS on a 486/66 ppp gateway with 8 megs of ram and 170 megs of disk. This machine also runs dhcp and ppp -alias -auto with sshd. Inetd is disabled. What you want is known as a caching only server. You just put forwarders and forword only lines(bind 4.9) in named.boot. Then point your win95 machines at this machine for DNS. I would strongly suggest that you use the ISC dhcpd server to assign IP addresses and propagate TCP/IP information to the Win95 machines. -- When I was a kid I had to rub sticks together to multiply and divide numbers. A calculator was a job description. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19990313202952.A1850>