Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 13:44:19 -0400 From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: Mark Diekhans <markd@grizzly.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Local nameserver with a part-time ppp connection? Message-ID: <199606191744.NAA05608@garion.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jun 1996 07:34:30 PDT." <199606191434.HAA09375@Grizzly.COM>
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-------- Mark Diekhans uttered with conviction: > > > Does anyone know if its possible to run a local name server with a > part-time ppp connection to the rest of the world? > > Even with sendmail just queuing mail, its still tries to talk to the > nameserver to verify mail address. Causing it to wait for the l > ocal named to time out trying to connect to the internet servers. Yes.. what I have done here is this.... We have an internal Nameserver that handles all the dns traffic for internal ( off the internet ) machines. I also have my machine. I have configured my machine as a secondary nameserver but I have added a 'forwarders' line to the bottom that will attempt to check for the name outside the internal network. My machine is the one with the temporary connection to the internet. This allows me to have two lines in /etc/resolv.conf, with my machine as the first and the internal dns server as the second. It also allows me to have dnslookups that do not timeout when the connection is down. I am sure that there are better ways to do this... but this was my solution. -branson
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