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Date:      Thu, 4 Jan 2001 23:56:57 -0600
From:      "Victor R. Cardona" <vcardona@home.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using BIND in a local, bogus network
Message-ID:  <20010104235657.A24579@home.com>
In-Reply-To: <01010418384900.00606@mars.walker.dom>; from kew@icehouse.net on Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 06:38:49PM -0800
References:  <01010418384900.00606@mars.walker.dom>

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On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 06:38:49PM -0800, Keith Walker wrote:
> I've been perusing all of the FAQ's, reading TFM's, answered a few of some 
> other folk's questions, now it's my turn to ask:
> 
> I hope this is detailed enough.
> 
> 1. I have a local network, consisting of three machines, one of which is a 
> FreeBSD machine running as a firewall/NAT thingie.
> 
> 2. The firewall is connected to the net through a dial up modem.
> 
> 3. The LAN is set up on 192.168.0.x/24
> 
> What I want to do is have a bogus domain, like "family.bog" (a new TLD 
> invented just for bogus sites like mine :-), with the other machines on the 
> LAN having names such as "pepsi.family.bog" and "coke.family.bog".
> 
> In my perfect world, the firewall would have a named running that would be a 
> domain master for the bogus network, would cache "real" addresses, and just 
> generally, DTRT.
> 
> I've had *some* success with this, but I cannot get the nameserver to quit 
> forcing dial-outs, keeping the modem connected almost 24/7.
> 
> Ok, so:
> 
> 1) How come the named program keeps dialing out? 
> 2) How can I prevent this? 
> 3) Are nameservers designed to run only on full time systems?
> 4) Is there a better way of doing this?

I have a similar setup, but mine is through a cable modem. I am guessing
that your named dials out when it gets a request for a ip address from
one of your hosts. You might try setting up a caching only nameserver.
Then it would not try to answer queries about unknown hosts.

HTH,
Victor Cardona
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