From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 16 9:30:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.ruraltel.net (mail.ruraltel.net [24.225.0.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10BC337B40E for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 09:30:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from darryl@osborne-ind.com) Received: from darryl ([24.225.30.195]) by mail.ruraltel.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-70800U16000L4200S0V35) with SMTP id net for ; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:28:31 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Darryl Hoar" To: Subject: DNS questions Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:33:03 -0500 Message-ID: <002701c12671$1fac73c0$0701a8c0@darryl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Importance: Normal 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 Greetings, am running 4.3-release. Have been trying to install/configure qmail, which has lead me to DNS. Our internal LAN does not use DNS for name resolution. We have hosts files that are populated with machine addresses and names. Not the best, but working. I have been thinking about setting up the following: setup a machine on our internal LAN to be the primary DNS for our private IP's (192.168.1.x). (Our lan is connected to the internet through a gateway running FreeBSD 4.0 with ppp -auto -nat. So, currently the network clients have our ISP's primary & secondary DNS servers setup on their machine.) This new DNS server would resolve our local private IP's and forward any unknowns to our ISP's primary DNS server. Is this possible? Is there any online pointers/tutorials for this ? thanks, Darryl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message