Hello Derek, Wednesday, April 2, 2003, 10:12:12 AM, you wrote:
DJ> On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 8:36 am, Rainer Koschnick wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a question regarding named. I have set up a firewall machine >> which has 2 ethernets cards, one connected to my cable modem, the >> other to my LAN. On the fw there is dhcpd + named running which, >> so far, works fine. The problem is that named stops listening for >> requests from my LAN computer when I switch it off: >> >> Apr 2 00:32:47 ip56 named[1632]: lame server resolving >> 'O2000.PRIMA.COM.AR' (in 'AR'?): 16.1.0.19#53 Apr 2 01:33:43 ip56 >> named[1632]: no longer listening on 192.168.1.1#53 >> >> When I turn my LAN machine back on, I have to restart named manually >> because it wouldn't go back listening to requests from 192.168.1.*. >> >> How would this normally be automated? >> >> Regards, >> Rainer DJ> I get around it by not using BIND (named) DJ> Instead I use djbdns which does not have the security problems of BIND and has DJ> not required a second of my time since I installed it. DJ> djbdns is normally installed from source, but Mandrake have provided an RPM to DJ> automate the installation. See here for details DJ> http://www.mandrakesecure.net/en/docs/djbdns.php Ok, downloaded and installed that one (flawlessly). Thanks for your help! Rainer
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