In a message dated: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 10:21:28 EST
"Steven W. Orr" said:
>I have dhcpcd set up so that it will not overwrite the resolve.conf on the
>server. But conceivably, RCN is allowed to change the nameserver I use
>every time a lease gets started. What I have been doing is to set the
>resolv.conf on the client machine to be the same as the one on the server.
>Is there a way for the resolv.conf on the client to query the server so
>that the server will act on his behalf? I am *not* running a nameserver
>since I am a dhcp client. Also, I did try setting the client resolv.conf
>to point to the server's 192.168 address but it would not work. Is there a
>way to do this?
You could run a recursive, caching DNS server on your server system
and have the DHCP server hand out it's own address as the DNS server
to clients. Or, you could have the DHCP server hand out your local
DNS server's IP to DHCP clients and have the DNS server, which would
be authoritative for your zone only, refer to the recursive/caching
server running on the DHCP server for all non-local queries.
This separation would provide a modicum of security, since if your
DNS server is hacked, they wouldn't get any local/internal
information off of it wrt your network design.
--
Seeya,
Paul
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