From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 13 21:30:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost2.attcanada.net (mailhost2.attcanada.net [206.191.82.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F14D14D7E for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:30:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j.yeo@attcanada.net) Received: from homepc ([142.194.48.73]) by mailhost2.attcanada.net (InterMail v03.02.07 118 124) with SMTP id <19990314052506.AVH7678@homepc>; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 05:25:06 +0000 Message-ID: <000e01be6ddc$09342e80$0a64a8c0@homepc> From: "Jeff Yeo" To: "Alan Weber" Cc: Subject: Re: How-to for simple DNS? Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:32:20 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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. Ouch! I'm still derating my machine based on Microsoft bloat. This is a 486SX/33 with 8MB RAM and 250MB disk. It would seem I'm not so limited after all ... >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. > Excuse my continuing ignorance, but when nameservers talk, do they do so on "fixed" ports? Just wondering for the ipfw rules and natd. I've got three Win9x machines. Is it worthwhile to go DHCP? I'm currently using wide-dhcp since my ISP server won't respond to the ISC client (which I would rather be using, BTW). Jeff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message