Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:42:34 -0800 (PST) From: <unknown@riverstyx.net> To: Jeff Yeo <j.yeo@attcanada.net> Cc: Alan Weber <aaweber@austin.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How-to for simple DNS? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9903132138470.30039-100000@hades.riverstyx.net> In-Reply-To: <000e01be6ddc$09342e80$0a64a8c0@homepc>
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On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Jeff Yeo wrote: > Ouch! I'm still derating my machine based on Microsoft bloat. This is > a 486SX/33 with 8MB RAM and 250MB disk. It would seem I'm not so > limited after all ... I run a caching DNS server and a masquerading firewall on a 386DX/40 with 4 megs of RAM -- all these simple services don't take up any processor power at all. You could run DNS on a 8086 if you wanted to :) > Excuse my continuing ignorance, but when nameservers talk, do they > do so on "fixed" ports? Just wondering for the ipfw rules and natd. Check the BIND documentation. All DNS requests go through port 53, UDP. You can sepcify a source port in the config file (at least in BIND 8, you can). > I've got three Win9x machines. Is it worthwhile to go DHCP? > I'm currently using wide-dhcp since my ISP server won't respond to the > ISC client (which I would rather be using, BTW). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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