From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 13 21:41: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hades.riverstyx.net (unknown [216.94.42.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD0214FAE for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:40:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from unknown@riverstyx.net) Received: from localhost (unknown@localhost) by hades.riverstyx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA30163; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:42:34 -0800 Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:42:34 -0800 (PST) From: To: Jeff Yeo Cc: Alan Weber , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How-to for simple DNS? In-Reply-To: <000e01be6ddc$09342e80$0a64a8c0@homepc> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 13 Mar 1999, Jeff Yeo wrote: > 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 ... I run a caching DNS server and a masquerading firewall on a 386DX/40 with 4 megs of RAM -- all these simple services don't take up any processor power at all. You could run DNS on a 8086 if you wanted to :) > Excuse my continuing ignorance, but when nameservers talk, do they > do so on "fixed" ports? Just wondering for the ipfw rules and natd. Check the BIND documentation. All DNS requests go through port 53, UDP. You can sepcify a source port in the config file (at least in BIND 8, you can). > 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). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message