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From: "Casey Scott" <casey@phantombsd.org>
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Subject: Re: DNS setup
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If you are just looking to be able to resolve DNS internally, you can very
easily setup your FBSD box to be a forwarding DNS server, and point all
your other machines at it for DNS resolution. There are many howtos
covering this subject.

Casey


> I am running FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE behind a Linksys Wireless Access
> Point and Firewall and a DSL modem. My ISP assigns me a dynamic IP
> address which changes on a regular basis and the root domain and
> Domain Name Servers associated with that domain also change. I have
> seen at least 3 different root domains.
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> I have a number of machines on my wireless network and I would like
> them to be able to find one another. To do this I have assigned them
> fixed IP addresses.
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> My problem how to assign the Domain Name Servers for all the
> machines. I point them all at the Linksys, which seems to work most
> of the time, but occasionally network traffic gets really slow and I
> suspect that its a DNS problem.
>
> Can I set up something on my FreeBSD server to help solve this problem?
>
> Alan
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