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From: j@werner.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP and named
Date: 15 Sep 1995 12:02:27 +0200
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Bo Najdrovsky <bn@okcforum.osrhe.edu> wrote:
>OK, I've just spent over 3 hours fighting with iijppp and named on
>a FreeBSD 2.0.5 system that I've been trying to configure as a net
>gateway. Anyway, due to a lack of good documentation, I'm still not able
>to get it working right. Is there a good source of information on
>configuring these things? I'm not looking for anything extravagant,
>just the ability to dial up an ISP on demand, resolve any net addresses
>either from the name server's internal cache or fetch the answer from the
>nameserver at the ISP's site.
"BIND and DNS", O'Reilly.
Basically, look for the "forwarders" and probably "slave" keywords.
You _can_ figure this out by carefully reading the man page (i once
did, but it took me several hours).
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)