On Sat, 7 May 2005 17:34:19 -0400 Andrew Hicox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everyone: > > I have a number of machines behind a NAT firewall. Because I don't like > to manage hosts files on all of the machines, I usually set up bind on > my Ultra-1 running debian. BIND has a zone file for my domain, and > reverse DNS info for each of my internal IP's, so it provides > 'internal' DNS on my network as well as caching and forwarding DNS > requests outside my domain. > > The problem is that BIND is a beast, (...) > So, there has to be something better out there to use for 'internal' > DNS. All this thing needs to do is resolve hostnames on my domain to > internal addresses (www.hicox.com = 192.168.blah.blah), and provide > reverse lookup for internal ip addresses (192.168.blah.blah = > laptop.hicox.com, etc.), and forward DNS requests to my ISP's DNS > server for things not on my domain (yahoo.com ... get ip from ISP's > DNS, relay it back to requester). > > dnsmasq looked promising, but it was tied fairly tightly with dhcpd, > which is not something I'm looking to run, configuration looked far > from intuitive as well. You can use dnsmaq without doing any dhcp. I have a SparcClassic with a 50Mhz MicroSparc CPU doing so for our LAN, which is also running a "dopewars"-server 24/7. (Yes, I have plenty of backup machines ;) ) The machine is running at about 3% load average. Cheers, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]