From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 20 1:21:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kearneys.ca (cr1003527-a.rct1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.36.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D488337B53C for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 01:21:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brent@kearneys.ca) Received: (qmail 61015 invoked by uid 1000); 20 Mar 2000 09:21:48 -0000 Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 01:21:48 -0800 From: Brent Kearney To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Need Networking Help Message-ID: <20000320012148.E60597@kearneys.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Oiv9uiLrevHtW1RS" X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --Oiv9uiLrevHtW1RS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 10:11:18PM +0000, Sandip Srivastava wrote: > I have a stand-alone system that connects only occasionally to the > internet via a dial-up ppp connection. The ISP that I connect to > dynamically assigns my system an IP address and a FQDN. I assume that you want DNS for a local LAN or something? There is a section in O'Reilly's book, "DNS and BIND" on dial-on-demand DNS server /router. They basically warn to configure your resolvers to use a minimal search list, i.e., search your local domain first - otherwise your dial-on-demand router ends up bringing the connection "up and down like a yo-yo". I think there is information in the handbook on configuring ppp for dial-on-demand. As for DNS, I recomend O'Reilly's book, but there is probably a wealth of information available online as well. Other posters to the list have answered your FQDN question, so I won't. -Brent --Oiv9uiLrevHtW1RS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use MessageID: LpnTOLJ39ZefcEHQ5cCM6ZCl86TlRaKd iQA/AwUBONXtq/5LgQMksPsjEQJ3IgCgz1G/N3R0rRH6oTMeBxeUFKD6vH8AoOjP khJJzEmUzRiDVtdJVI+NSbB9 =hGml -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Oiv9uiLrevHtW1RS-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message