From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 23 15:22:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7928916A494 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:22:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) Received: from relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.182.165]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E38243D46 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:21:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drew@mykitchentable.net) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.4.1 at filter13.roc.ny.frontiernet.net Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (67-137-238-101.dsl2.elk.ca.frontiernet.net [67.137.238.101]) by relay02.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 093F8370111 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:21:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.25.6] (unknown [192.168.25.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2071648B6 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:21:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <449C0711.3080803@mykitchentable.net> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:21:53 -0700 From: Drew Tomlinson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Simple DNS For Private LAN X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 15:22:02 -0000 I'm having a hard time understanding what I need to do. I have a small home network that uses a 3Com DSL modem/router as the last hop to the Internet. Currently, the DSL modem/router to provides DNS for both my home network and the Internet. Basically I have a few static entries for machines on my home network and then the DSL modem/router queries my ISPs name servers for everything else. When I registered my domain, I used ZoneEdit as my name servers. 'whois mykitchentable.net' gives this output: domain: mykitchentable.net owner-name: Drew Tomlinson nserver: ns3.zoneedit.com 209.61.140.1 nserver: ns4.zoneedit.com 216.98.150.236 Now I'm changing ISPs and the DSL modem/router will be removed. I am going to use a FBSD 6.x box to be my router, firewall, and DNS server. I read the handbook regarding DNS but remain confused. Should I be a master for mykitchentable.net? I'm thinking not because ZoneEdit is the master, correct? So should I be a slave? And if I'm a slave, will my DNS get it's updates from ZoneEdit? Or should I become master for my zone and make ZoneEdit a backup DNS? I'm a complete newbie to DNS but know that it's important to get it right or lots of stuff gets broken. Can someone please guide me in the right direction? I don't mind reading if you send me a link. :) Thanks, Drew -- Be a Great Magician! Visit The Alchemist's Warehouse http://www.alchemistswarehouse.com