Re: small dns daemon / forwarder ?
On Sat, 7 May 2005 17:34:19 -0400
Andrew Hicox <andrew@hicox.com> 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,
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