Can BIND on vpn use name servers assigned via DHCP by ISP?
Jorge Canas
jcanas2000 at hotmail.com
Thu Feb 8 17:12:13 UTC 2007
>From: Danny Mayer <mayer at gis.net>
>
>Jorge Canas wrote:
> > Anyone know how to configure the local DNS to do that? Caching on the
>local
> > DNS would also be nice, but the forwarding bit is more important to me
>right
> > now.
> >
>
>Don't bother. Just let the local DNS server query directly. There is no
>advantage to forward to the ISP's DNS servers.
>
>Danny
>
Thanks for all the replies. I had a similar query on the dhcp mailing list
and I have been told that DNSMASQ will do what I want.
For the record, I am basically trying to simulate the behaviour of off the
shelf NAT/FW... That is why I wanted to not really run full fledged DNS
locally.
- Jorge
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