From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 14 2:31: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC7937B410 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 02:30:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id LAA22814; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:40:09 +0200 Message-ID: <3BA1CE49.9020408@i-clue.de> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:30:49 +0200 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010905 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: aventure@csf.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS via Dynamic IP address -4.3 References: <200109131842.f8DIgG320706@javalina.csf.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG aventure@csf.edu wrote: >I'm running 4.3 RELEASE > >I just want to see if i would be wasting my time. > OK, so there will be the long answer version. > > >Is it possible to setup the DNS daemon when your are dynamically assigned an IP >address. > Yes. > > >I'm pretty sure I can set it up using the handbook... I just didn't want to >waste my time if I should first have a static IP. > You do not need a static IP for DNS to work. Assuming you got a home network, a FreeBSD box acting as router, and a dialup (or DSL) line upstream to the net. Configure your DNS to serve the zone "local" (that's a reserved zone name for local zones, you guessed it). Have your DNS server to caching only for all other zones. Point your DNS server to your upstream providers DNS server as forwarder. > >----- > >and a side question/furure refrence: in the hand book it gives this under ><17.9.6.3 Zone Files> (is the zone file generated from the named.conf file? or >do I have to make it?) > You have to create the zone files yourself. The whole story can be read at Cricket & Liu, DNS & BIND, O'Reilley. The short story can be found at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO.html . Another useful source is http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/ . Lots of other resources can be googled. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message