Patches item #438075, was opened at 2001-07-02 16:45 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=313751&aid=438075&group_id=13751 Category: packages Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Michael C. Zapf (mczapf) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: DNS relay daemon for masquaraded network Initial Comment: dnsmasq is a DNS relay daemon for masquaraded (NAT) networks. It was designed for use with dialup (PPP) links. The daemon runs on the firewall/router/masquarding machine, accepts dns requests, performs lookups using /etc/hosts or the external DNS server(s), and returns the results. There are three advantages to this scheme over the scheme where internal machines contact the external DNS servers directly: (1) If the PPP link is down, DNS queries will fail immediately rather than after a long timeout. (2) Machines in the internal network do not need to be reconfigured if external DNS servers change. (3) Internal machines will essential have the same DNS capabilities as the firewall/router. Names can be assigned to internal IP addresses in /etc/hosts on the router, and internal machines will have access to these address mappings via dns. Dnsmasq has one further feature; it can be configured to return an MX record for the firewall host. This makes it easy to configure the mailer on the local machines to forward all mail to the central mailer on the firewall host. The information above was paraphrased from content at the dnsmasq homepage: http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=313751&aid=438075&group_id=13751 _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
