Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:32:38 -0300 From: Ken Easson <ken@justken.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Which DNS server? Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.0.20020911160033.03cd94f0@mail.justken.net>
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after a few weeks of trying to earn some money, i'm back trying to set up my freeBSD router, and stop using /hosts files I have not had any luck with either named(bind) or djbdns. bind - wow - complicated - and security concern? djbdns - seems to like making my hd light up every second or so - seems really hard on my system. as soon as i start tinydns the hd spins up for about half a sec every 2 seconds, why does it need to do this? can't it cache it's dns records in memory? I've got an overwhelming 32M of ram, but this system isn't doing a whole lot, just acting as a router for now. and i'm told i need two instances of it running - one for my internal servers, and one for my external - although the later i do not understand, since external lookups happen at the dns servers from my isp. (working great so far), i'd consider caching those, but right now... i've got bigger concerns. i am trying to set up an internal dns server to route my own domains back into my network, and any other domain lookups out to the Internet - sadly i'm using DHCP to get my dns servers ip - but they are quite static (i know, i know- no lectures on the evils of using dynamic ip to host www services.) if anyone has any solutions that will enable me to continue surfing the net from my internal systems (using ipnat and ipf), and to continue allowing outside browser's to find my apache, and ftp server on my internal network, plus add dns support to route back my own lookups to find my own server - i'm all ears. I'm also quite stupid, and need things explained in detail... "just set blah to xx" doesn't help me too much. editing my /hosts files is not a "viable" solution - currently it's a temporary fix, but it's a pain in the buttox. thanks ken easson justken.net ken@justken.net justken web programming and technical support. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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