From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 13 18:30:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from aauu.aaweber.com (cs9340-48.austin.rr.com [24.93.40.48]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D59AF14FB2 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 18:30:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aaweber@austin.rr.com) Received: (from aaweber@localhost) by aauu.aaweber.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA01876; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 20:29:52 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 20:29:52 -0600 From: Alan Weber To: Jeff Yeo Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How-to for simple DNS? Message-ID: <19990313202952.A1850@austin.rr.com> References: <009c01be6dbd$48993800$0a64a8c0@homepc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <009c01be6dbd$48993800$0a64a8c0@homepc>; from Jeff Yeo on Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 05:52:11PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 05:52:11PM -0800, Jeff Yeo wrote: --> I am setting up a firewall (using natd and ipfw) between --> an internal LAN and my ISP. I discovered that the internal --> PCs cannot use the ISP DNS servers through natd (I suppose --> this is a given for those of you who are more experienced). --> If I do have to set up DNS on the firewall, I just want the DNS --> on the firewall to forward any local requests to the ISP DNS --> and return the results. I've got limited resources on this box --> (disk and RAM) and don't want to load it up too too much. I --> don't really need to do maintain any DNS entries for hosts --> on the local network, and don't want to "publish" any entries --> externally either. Guess I'm looking for more of a DNS proxy --> than a server. What does limited ram and disk mean? I am using a DNS on a 486/66 ppp gateway with 8 megs of ram and 170 megs of disk. This machine also runs dhcp and ppp -alias -auto with sshd. Inetd is disabled. What you want is known as a caching only server. You just put forwarders and forword only lines(bind 4.9) in named.boot. Then point your win95 machines at this machine for DNS. I would strongly suggest that you use the ISC dhcpd server to assign IP addresses and propagate TCP/IP information to the Win95 machines. -- When I was a kid I had to rub sticks together to multiply and divide numbers. A calculator was a job description. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message