From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 8: 3:26 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 5 08:03:24 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.kka.com (smtp.kka.com [63.141.65.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E9B37B400 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 2001 08:03:24 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Using BIND in a local, bogus network To: Keith Walker Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.2a November 23, 1999 Message-ID: From: Eric_Stanfield@kenokozie.com Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2001 09:57:57 -0600 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on Notes1st/Keno(Release 5.0.4 |June 8, 2000) at 01/05/2001 09:57:59 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What exactly is your nameserver looking for when it's causing these dial-ups? Is it calling the internic root-servers, doing axfr's from some other host, etc....? Got a snippet of a sniffer log you could post? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Eric Stanfield, K2Access Keno Kozie and Associates 222 N LaSalle #1500 Chicago, IL 60606 (312) 332-3000 Keith Walker To: Nick Slager Sent by: cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG owner-freebsd-questions@F Subject: Re: Using BIND in a local, bogus network reeBSD.ORG 01/05/01 09:58 AM On Thursday 04 January 2001 10:07 pm, Nick Slager wrote: > Thus spake Keith Walker (kew@icehouse.net): > > In my perfect world, the firewall would have a named running that would > > be a domain master for the bogus network, would cache "real" addresses, > > and just generally, DTRT. > > > > I've had *some* success with this, but I cannot get the nameserver to > > quit forcing dial-outs, keeping the modem connected almost 24/7. > > You might want to look into userland PPP's filters to stop the auto dial > on DNS lookups. Have a look at the examples in /usr/share/examples/ppp. > I thought about that, but wouldn't that pretty much kill the name lookups? I mean, if a name wasn't cached, then the lookup by named wouldn't unless the modem-link was already established since ppp wouldn't auto-dial out on a 53 packet. Or did I miss something here? -- Keith Walker kew@icehouse.net PGP Key: http://www.icehouse.net/kew/public-key.pgp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message