Subject: RE: DNS/Smoothwall question
From: W.D.McKinney (dee@akwireless.net)
Date: Sat Dec 21 2002 - 11:47:42 AKST
You could easily set up a dnscache but it sounds like you may want to
use a full dns as well as dnscache. I recommend
Reading http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/run-cache-home.html
and possibly http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/run-server-bind.html
I doubt GCI will act in your DNS requirements.
Best Regards,
Dee
-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org]On Behalf Of
Justin Dieters
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 11:09 AM
To: AkLUG
Subject: DNS/Smoothwall question
Hey all, I have a Smoothwall box set up, and a GCI Cable modem. I get
ip's for my internal network through DHCP from the Smoothwall. If I set
my DNS to be my Smoothwall box, most sites will work, but occasionally I
get sites that don't work, or will stop working suddenly. If I set my
DNS to GCI's servers, all the sites work fine, but I can't access sites
on my network with hostnames. I have to either put them into /etc/hosts
or use their IP's.
I don't know enough about DNS to know what the problem is, but I want to
be able to get around my internal network using hostnames, but doing
that, I sometimes have problems accessing sites on the internet. Is
there some sort of caching for DNS on the Smoothwall box that might be
causing it to give me wrong IP's sometimes? Any other ideas how I
should have my DNS set up?
Thanks,
Justin
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