bind8 only tcp queries?

[Kevin Darcy]

Why don't you just delay bringing up your nameserver until you have a valid
source IP?


- Kevin

Stephan Grallert wrote:

> The first packets sent out to the forwarders contain a non-valid source IP,
> so any answers won't make the way back to my ppp-dev.
> I either need to tell bind to only make tcp-queries, in which the valid IP
> can be inserted by the kernel-patch or to have the kernel modified by any
> guru!
>
> Static IP ist not possible and forwarding is necessary.
> greetz
> "Kevin Darcy" <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:39CBD032.D7E46A4F at daimlerchrysler.com...
> >
> > TCP queries are wasteful, you shouldn't be using them as a matter of
> course.
> >
> > I'm not clear why you feel the need to rewrite your source address. Does
> your
> > forwarder restrict queries, or restrict recursion, by IP address? If you
> have
> > full connectivity to the Internet, then perhaps instead of kludging your
> > network stack, or BIND, you should consider not forwarding at all. Or get
> a
> > static IP address.
> >
> >
> > - Kevin
> >
> > Stephan Grallert wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all!
> > >
> > > My problem is probably not new, but I scanned deja and this mailing list
> > > archive, but I found no hint:
> > > I built a Linux box do act as dial up router with pppd, named (caching
> and
> > > forwarding only). In order to solve the problem with the dynamic source
> IP
> > > adresses I activated the RST-Provoking patch which rewrites TCP header's
> > > source address after to PtP connection has come up.
> > > The problem is, it ONLY rewrites TCP packages, no UDP.
> > > But bind8 first send outs a udp-query to its forwarders, but this is not
> > > rewritten.
> > > Is there any chance to tell bind to make tcp-queries only?
> > >
> > > thanx&greetz!
> >
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