Date: 8 May 2001 08:21:13 PDT From: JOHN VAN BOXTEL <vanbo@usa.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: PPP, Bind, and Zone Xfers Message-ID: <20010508152113.3774.qmail@nwcst280.netaddress.usa.net>
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I have a bit of a funny networking situation that maybe someone can help me with... BACKGROUND We have a WAN that is getting connected to an ASP provider and that ASP provider has setup some name servers to provide our clients with host names. The ASP providers name server is only accessible through their WAN and not the internet. The ASP has asked us NOT to use their name server for internet host resolution (which works right now but may not in the future) and we have decided to transfer their zone to our servers so that our clients can just continue to use our name servers and get the new hostnames. PROBLEM A certain long distance company that begins with an "A" is more then 4 weeks behind in getting our WAN connected to the ASP's WAN via multiple T's. In order to talk to the ASP's WAN we have to use DIALUP PPP in the interim. For every hour we are connected via PPP we are charged $5 (per connection) so we need to transfer the zones and disconnect so we don't need to use their nameservers. My problem is this: How do I get my nameservers to dialup a PPP connection to transfer one zone, and then hangup, but continue to get all their other DNS information (and zones) via the permentant network connection? One idea I had was to use IPFW to divert the ASP's nameserver's IP to PPP kind of like I what the "divert all any to any via NATD" command most use for NATDing... Is this the right approach? Is their another (easier) way? VANBO ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the messagehelp
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