On 3 Aug 1998, Jake Colman wrote:
> Hmmm. I though that the diald FAQ says that you should NOT run named! I had
> had a chaching name server set up (using the default caching name server RPM
> included with RH 5.1) but removed it because of the FAQ. I am I
> misremembering (is that a word?) something?
The problem, as best I recall, is that with a caching server the initial
request may try to establish a connection (TCP) rather than being a
datagram (UDP) DNS request. This can cause problems especially with a
link that has a dynamic IP address - that initial TCP session is doomed,
since it has an incorrect source IP address. I believe there's a kernel
hack that attempts to deal with this, but from what I've read it is less
than perfect. As I think I said, I'm lucky enough to have a fixed IP
address, so my knowledge of dealing with dynamic addresses is secondhand
and theoretical.
> In any case, what version of named or bind are you using? How do you have it
> set up? Can you point me to a FAQ? My network is quite small. A Linux box
> running Samba, diald, and with ability to connnect to ISP via PPP, and
> several Win95 boxes. I use IP Masq to successfully masquerade the network
> over PPP, and use Samba to publish Linux-based mounts and to access Win-based
> mounts.
That's very like the home/office network here. I'm using whichever
version of bind shipped with Debian 1.3. There's a pretty good HOWTO for
bind/DNS, but the syntax, especially for the very important reverse (IP to
FQDN) tables is hard to get right. It's not so much inherently hairy, I
think, as just consistently backwards: I didn't find it easy to keep
things wrong-way-around. :-)
> I'll look at this solution but I think that is already the case.
One gotcha I've seen mentioned about hosts is that the first name really
needs to be the fully-qualified name; aliases follow that. Aside from
that and typos, no problem!
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