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From: John Murphy <bigotfo@bigfoot.com>
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Subject: Re: DNS resolving by internal network
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 15:16:29 +0100
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Ben Smithurst wrote:
>Hector wrote:
>
>> I have a FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE box w/2 NICs setup as a gateway and an
>> internal LAN.  I have IPFilter setup already. =20
>> All my internal machines have static IPs and the default gateway as =
the
>> 2nd NIC of my FreeBSD box.
>>=20
>> How do I get them to use the DNS servers given by my ISP?
>
>Why not run a local DNS cache on the gateway instead?  That will shorten
>the time taken for DNS lookups.

I, for one, would like to do that.  Is there a tutorial somewhere?

John.


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