From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 29 14:50:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from supermail.mweb.co.za (supermail.mweb.co.za [196.2.53.171]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B730E37B409 for ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:50:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [196.30.183.175] (helo=siberiyan.dyndns.org) by supermail.mweb.co.za with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 15nRsS-0000Pu-00; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 23:42:29 +0200 Received: by siberiyan.dyndns.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 29 Sep 2001 23:50:49 +0200 Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 23:50:49 +0200 From: "Piet Delport" To: Galen Sampson Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: natd proxy Message-ID: <20010929235049.C33828@athalon> Mail-Followup-To: Galen Sampson , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20010929182800.11361.qmail@web14101.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d8Lz2Tf5e5STOWUP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20010929182800.11361.qmail@web14101.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE X-Editor: VIM - Vi IMproved 6.0 (http://www.vim.org/) X-Crypto: gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.6 (http://www.gnupg.org/) X-GPG-Key-ID: 0x6B191427 X-GPG-Fingerprint: C7FF A540 2199 F7BF 1933 5640 CD15 0FF3 6B19 1427 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --d8Lz2Tf5e5STOWUP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 29 Sep 2001 at 11:28:00 -0700, Galen Sampson wrote: > Hello all, > I have searched the mailling lists for this subject but found > nothing relevant. I suppose this is a question for -questions but I > would appreciate your thoughts. I would like to be able to run natd > and a dhcp-server to provide internet access to a lan through a single > ip address. I would like to be able to pass the address of the natd > machine as the dns server option to all dhcp clients to make this a > truely dynamic setup. Unfortunately the only way I have found to do > this is to run named on the gateway machine (this is a small lan and > named seems like overkill/security risk). Another way (not dynamic in > terms of changing addresses/isps) would be to set up another divert > rule and run a second natd with the -reverse flag and port forward to > a static ip address to be used as a dns server. Is there any way to > set up natd to proxy dns using the systems current resolver? If not > then this feature would be most helpful. Sorry for not answering the question directly, but have you given the net/pdnsd port a look? It seems well-suited to your problem. --=20 Piet Delport Today's subliminal thought is: --d8Lz2Tf5e5STOWUP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE7tkI5zRUP82sZFCcRAlioAKCgzmkuYRrYt9Zl635bJe1CllPGMgCeNnaW ZCiB8ALQcVd8WS53CQ2rsmI= =Blf1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d8Lz2Tf5e5STOWUP-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message