Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 17:56:18 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Kees Jan Koster <dutchman@tccn.cs.kun.nl> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, sparky@cs.kun.nl Subject: Re: named dailup on misspelled (local) hostname question. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971127175536.20686a-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <34749ACE.41C67EA6@tccn.cs.kun.nl>
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On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Kees Jan Koster wrote: > Dear all, > > How do I configure named to initiate a DNS query to the forwarder on > names in the form <hostname>.<domain>, but not on sole hostnames. In > other words: how do I avoid my firewall to pick up the phone and call > the University when all I did was make a type error and I typed `oriom' > instead of `orion'. Add on: if you're running ppp, set the dfilter to block named packets. This causes name lookups to no qualify to cause a dialout. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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