Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:36:23 -0800 From: "Dan O'Connor" <dan@ferrarishields.com> To: "Brian Bobowski" <bbobowski@gmail.com>, "FreeBSD User Questions List" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Setting up a FreeBSD gateway Message-ID: <024a01c61166$270c4610$0599460a@dan> References: <43BC097C.4000401@gmail.com>
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> I have one machine that's acting as a gateway for my home PC, in
> addition to running a few local servers. I know I shouldn't do that,
> but the traffic is low and I just don't have room for more computers
> in my room, anyway.
>
> At any rate... I think I've got the packet-forwarding aspect set up
> OK; I compiled a kernel with the options I found in the docs on the
> matter.
>
> However, I don't know how to set up DNS. Specifically, I want to
> either pass all DNS requests through the gateway, or have the gateway
> run a local DNS that queries my ISP's DNS in turn. Can anyone point me
> to some steps on how to set that up?
Here's how I do it (my ISP maintains my domain name records on their DNS
servers...):
http://www.mostgraveconcern.com/freebsd/sheet.cgi?ipfw
~Dan
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