baby steps...

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Adam,

Thursday, March 22, 2018, 3:53:45 PM, you wrote:

> On Thursday, March 22, 2018 01:37 GMT, Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:
 >> > I set up my SOHO server to be a router/gateway to the net, firewall, DHCP server, DNS server and backup server for my lan.
>> > 
>> > I set up bind9 and isc-dhcp to support DDNS, but I am struggling to get hostname resolution working on the  server for the lan clients.
>> > 
>> > The server has two NICs - one for lan on 192.168.0.3, and one that obtains its public IP address via pppoe from the broadband provider (which shouldn't be serving DNS outwards but needs configuring not to).
>> 
>> options {
>>       listen-on { 198.158/16; 127.0.0.1; };
>>       listen-on-v6 { <internal address range>; ::1; };
>> };

> So that will tell bind to serve 127.0.0.1, but don't I need to
> configure linux to go to 127.0.0.1 for DNS, since at the moment it
> isn't, according to resolv.conf, it's going to the OpenDNS servers: 

> adam at gondor:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
> nameserver 81.139.56.100
> nameserver 81.139.57.100
> domain localdomain
> search localdomain
> adam at gondor:~$

> and that is generated by pppd when it connects.  I'm guessing now
> but presumably I have to tell pppd to add 127.0.0.1 to the other
> nameservers - the server wants to see the lan as well as the outside world.

> Regards
> Adam

So you configure your lan-side NIC to use localhost (or its own
ip-address) as first dns. Nothing to do with bind.


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