In that case you'll have to change your forward to the server on the particular network. The good thing is that you can have multiple forwarders (AFAI Remember!), so you keep adding on to your forwarder list until the day u're not really going to any new places :-p
Now that's the kind of bullshit answer we consultants come up with! Let me munch on the problem some more...(thank you for a interesting enough issue after a loooooong time....then again I'm not a let me screw with my file system just so that I can fix it guy!) A --------- Original Message -------- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [dubailug] Dns question Date: 12/08/06 14:59 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Akshay Lamba wrote: > > > > > > 1. We need to talk about this setup. Specially the OpenVPN bit...i've > > been trying to build such a thing for a while now and seems too wizardy > > for my limited mental resources! > > Oh it has a steep learning curve that lasts less than an hour.. once you get your head around it, > OpenVPN is so easy it's almost trivial. The most complex part is getting the ssl certificate > generation sorted, and that is only a matter of reading the docs.. > > > 2. To throw a thought out there, would creating a DNS on your local > > machine and as the first value in your /etc/resolv.conf with forwarder > > linked to local DNS/well known public DNS server work out? > > Yeah, I had thought of that one.. problem I see here is sometimes when I'm overseas the networks I'm > on seem to firewall dns, and you *have* to go through their dns servers.. which effectively neuters > bind. (Used to run a caching bind server on my old laptop and came up against that a couple of times). > > I guess I could write a dhclient scriptlet to update the bind config files with the local > forwarders.. I wonder how bind copes with negative responses. Guess I'll have a look and find out. > > Ugly, but perhaps it just might work agent 86. > > Brad > -- > "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability > to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable > for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Message sent using Acme Automation Webmail Service Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dubailug/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
