Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 13:53:02 -0500 From: Teo De Las Heras <teoheras@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up a FreeBSD gateway Message-ID: <d9d7f5a0601041053hea8cfb2wdd39097103653066@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43BC097C.4000401@gmail.com> References: <43BC097C.4000401@gmail.com>
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By design dns servers will perform recursive queries through the root servers for all domains; unless you're hosting the zone then it considers itself authoritive. So you can set up a dns server for your network, or us= e a public one. Teo On 1/4/06, Brian Bobowski <bbobowski@gmail.com> wrote: > > OK, I've tried searching through man pages and such, but I've got kind > of lost here. > > I have one machine that's acting as a gateway for my home PC, in > addition to running a few local servers. I know I shouldn't do that, but > the traffic is low and I just don't have room for more computers in my > room, anyway. > > At any rate... I think I've got the packet-forwarding aspect set up OK; > I compiled a kernel with the options I found in the docs on the matter. > > However, I don't know how to set up DNS. Specifically, I want to either > pass all DNS requests through the gateway, or have the gateway run a > local DNS that queries my ISP's DNS in turn. Can anyone point me to some > steps on how to set that up? > > A bit of user-friendly instruction on using ipfw would be nice, too; I > think I'd be able to figure it out in time, but if someone can spare a > few moments to point out where I can find instructions on e.g. passing > traffic on certain ports through to the other machine, handling others, > and blocking the rest, it'd be appreciated. It's specifically the > forwarding part that has me a bit mystified. > > Please reply off-list. > > TIA, > > -BB > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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