DHCP Screwed up Bind settings

joseph lang tcnojl1 at earthlink.net
Fri Jul 21 17:37:25 UTC 2000


"Steven M. Klass" wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
>         Ok, I've had bind up and running pretty smoothly for the last couple of
> weeks behind our firewall.  Last night I attempted to shift it into the
> primary firewall.  After I got it swapped over, my second nic (the one
> connected to the Internet) had to be configured for DHCP.  Well as soon as
> I enabled DHCP on my second nic, resolv.conf got swapped with the one they
> want me to use (vs. my local machine).  And when any of my local machine
> which to connect to my bind it says cannot find server.  I know that DHCP
> nicely replaced my resolv.conf file, with one it created. My question is this:
> 
>         1.  How can I allow my firewall to register it's nic and configure it's IP
> but not screw with anything else?
> 
> Steven M. Klass
> Physical Design Engineering Manager
> 
> Andigilog Inc.
> 7404 W. Detroit Street, Suite 100
> Chandler, AZ 85226
> Ph: 602-940-6200 ext. 18
> Fax: 602-940-4255
> 
> sklass at andigilog.com
> http://www.andigilog.com/
IMHO don't run bind on your firewall. If your ISP assigns 
dynamic IP, your DNS can't have any addresses we need to 
see anyway.

joe lang



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