Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 01:46:14 -0500 From: trini0 <trini0@optonline.net> To: Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> Subject: Re: DNS Part II Message-ID: <3ABC42B6.3040906@optonline.net> References: <3ABC25D6.4050201@optonline.net> <01032319552500.00806@galaxy.anchoragerescue.org>
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Thanks guys for your input. Seems to make sense. I entered
forward only;
forwarders
{ (isp dns pri) ; (isp dns sec) ];
When I try to kill -HUP named, syslog comes back with "syntax error near
forward." I check the man page and my syntax seems ok. But from what
you all are describing, it should take care of me. Ill see if I could
get over this puddle.....
Thanks again.
trini
Beech Rintoul wrote:
> On Friday 23 March 2001 19:43, trini0 wrote:
>
>> Hey, all. Purely a newbie experiment here. I set up a box running
>> named purely for name resolution, and mail services just for my little
>> lan. I used the o'reilly dns book to aid me. With everything done,
>> nameresolution did what it was supposed to do. I noticed that there
>> were multiple queries going out on the net to the root servers. I
>> didn't want that to happen, (didn't know if it was illegal or proper).
>> I changed my db.cache file to just say that my box was the "root"
>> server. Now that solved the multiple queries going to the root servers,
>> but now Im unable to "nslookup" outside my lan, but yet I can still
>> surf, send email, etc... My resolve.conf file specifies to use my
>> nameserver first and then my ISP's primary then secondary. Am I going
>> about things wrongly. Is it even possible to have a private dns box
>> where it resolves for the lan, and if queries aren't found there, to go
>> and query my ISP's name servers?? Hope I made a little bit of sense....
>> Thanks for listening.
>> trini0
>
>
> Add these to your named.conf:
>
> In addition to the "forwarders" clause, you can force your name
> server to never initiate queries of its own, but always ask its
> forwarders only, by enabling the following line:
>
> forward only;
>
> If you've got a DNS server around at your upstream provider, enter
> its IP address here, and enable the line below. This will make you
> benefit from its cache, thus reduce overall DNS traffic in the Internet.
>
> forwarders { 208.138.130.16
> };
>
> Beech
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