including forwarders from a file

[Kevin Darcy]

Why would you want to forward at all? If you have full Internet
connectivity, try configuring your box as a regular caching server, and
compare that to the forwarding alternative. You may find that it performs
as well, or better, than using your ISP's forwarders. And it would be a
lot easier to manage.


- Kevin

Urs Thuermann wrote:

> I use bind-8.2.3 on one machine which has a PPP link.  The IP provider
> sends in the PPP messages the IP addresses of two name servers to use.
>
> I want the named to use these name severs as forwarders.  The ip-up
> script, called when the PPP link is established, should change the
> named config file appropriately and reload the named.
>
> Instead of chainging /etc/named.conf, I woud prefer to change a file
> only listing the two name servers and include that file in named.conf.
>
> According to named.conf(5) I cannot use the include command inside
> another command, like
>
>         options {
>                 ...
>
>                 forwarders { include "forwarders"; };
>         };
>
> Also, I cannot use the options command twice, like
>
>         options {
>                 ...
>         };
>
>         include "forwarders";
>
> with another options command for the forwarders in the file
> "forwarders".
>
> Is there another way to achieve this?
>
> urs