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Re: name server on firewall box?



On Monday 14 May 2001 09:30, Jim Breton wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 12:44:20PM +0200, Christian Volk wrote:
> > With the new ISP it seems I don't have any choice but to move the name
> > server to the router/firewall machine to set the IPs after dial-up.
>
> Personally I would run a solid caching name server on the firewall:
> http://www.djbdns.org

This looks like a very interesting software.

With djbdns' separation of DNS server and DNS cache I could keep the DNS 
server on its current machine (not having to change resolv.conf on the user 
machines) and, if need be, move the cache on the firewall.

Thanks for the pointer.

- Christian



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