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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!blackbush.xlink.net!scsing.switch.ch!news.dfn.de!server2.rz.uni-leipzig.de!news.th-zwickau.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: local DNS & PPP ? Date: 6 Oct 1995 23:54:09 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <454c2h$ehh@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4513g3$7et@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Jan Sladky <diameter@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote: >How should i configure DNS that i can nslookup machines outside ? >Note: the ppp connection is not permanent and to hardwire the external > nameservers probably breaks the local DNS if the ppp link is not up. Make yourself your own primary (even if it's shadowing the official primary then). Make your nameserver pulling zone files for all zones in your search list, including all IN-ADDR.ARPA zones (i.e., make it a secondary for all these zones). Add the next nameservers beyond the link as "forwarders" in the named.boot file. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)