From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 9 19:03:30 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id TAA27335 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 19:03:30 -0800 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA27324 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 19:03:22 -0800 Received: (nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.8/8.3) id UAA14305; Thu, 9 Feb 1995 20:04:28 -0700 Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 20:04:28 -0700 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199502100304.UAA14305@trout.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: "M.C Wong" "DNS selection at user level" (Feb 10, 12:06pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: "M.C Wong" , freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com) Subject: Re: DNS selection at user level Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Just wonder if there is an environment variable/way for selecting > default DNS server at user level without having to update /etc/resolv.conf ? > Preferably something that can manipulate a local workstation to > resolve host and domain names at run-time control, including order of > the DNS servers to be queried etc. There would be too many ways to completely break security this way. Say you have a machine that exports it's file-systems with root access to a specific machine. All you need to do is provide a DNS server that you setup which responds that your machine is the trusted machine. There are many other ways which could cause these sorts of problems. Nate