From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 3 22:23:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8451B16A41C for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 22:23:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alan.curtis@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FC2843D49 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2005 22:23:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alan.curtis@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i4so633762wra for ; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 15:23:38 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:content-type:message-id:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=Px3y6y4XYrQ1TXRYV+D2Gn0OsU9VydgwUplF+BFIp4ltGKaqr3azo3i39G5cnuwy1sYca1aTl2Qk6jVOKaQrztJAAyfjr6CooYgHVF/Tj2LMLzZ9OdtBFz6y3N5wzpLHVlHIVzBKLRhKN9JPXsI5Tpi+u96lur+VlCnR54eacB8= Received: by 10.54.27.45 with SMTP id a45mr3128207wra; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 15:23:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.102? ([151.203.107.66]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 12sm3196279wrl.2005.07.03.15.23.38; Sun, 03 Jul 2005 15:23:38 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) In-Reply-To: <20050703125754.53452296@phobos.mars.bsd> References: <28EDBC57-9AE6-4D8B-9BA5-F8445C71600F@gmail.com> <20050703125754.53452296@phobos.mars.bsd> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Alan Curtis Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 18:23:31 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) Subject: Re: DNS setup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 22:23:40 -0000 On Jul 3, 2005, at 11:57 AM, Alejandro Pulver wrote: > On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 11:07:41 -0400 > Alan Curtis wrote: > > >> I am running FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE behind a Linksys Wireless Access >> Point and Firewall and a DSL modem. My ISP assigns me a dynamic IP >> address which changes on a regular basis and the root domain and >> Domain Name Servers associated with that domain also change. I have >> seen at least 3 different root domains. >> >> I have a number of machines on my wireless network and I would like >> them to be able to find one another. To do this I have assigned them >> fixed IP addresses. >> >> My problem how to assign the Domain Name Servers for all the >> machines. I point them all at the Linksys, which seems to work most >> of the time, but occasionally network traffic gets really slow and I >> suspect that its a DNS problem. >> >> Can I set up something on my FreeBSD server to help solve this >> problem? >> >> Alan >> >> > > Hello, > > If you think the problem is on your ISP DNS servers, you have two > alternatives: > > 1) Set up a local DNS server on all the machines of the network. > > 2) Set up a DNS server on one machine, that answers queries to all the > machines of the network. > > If you want more detailed information about them (like how to set them > up), ask me. > I do need some clear instructions. I tried djbdns without success (see another post) and also the instructions under 'Domain Name System (DNS)' in the FreeBSD Handbook. I added named_enable="YES" to /etc/rc.conf. Used the default configuration file without any zone (as suggested in the Handbook). There is no 'ndc' on my machine. I assume I must use 'rndc' instead. Ran 'rndc start' and was told rndc: connect failed: connection refused Saw nothing in /var/log/messages or /var/log/console.log Alan