On Fri 11 Jun, Jeff Rauenhorst wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm new to the list. Are there archives somewhere?
Not any working ones SFAIK
> First, what is the most recent version, it seems like there was a
> divergence, or at least a change in maintainer.
0.99 from http://www.unix.ch/ (IIRC)
> Second, I have diald (diald16-0.16.5a-2.i386.rpm on RH6.0) up and working
> using the diald16-0.16.5a-2-config scripts.
ditto.
> Here's my question: I have a local network with DNS running. Whenever it
> resolves the local names, it starts up diald. Can I set it up so that it
> does not attempt to query an outside DNS server when answering local DNS
> queries? (I'm running named 8.2)
No-one else haw replied so I'll tell you what I know, but essentially I
have much the same problems, which I have temporarily fixed, but not to
my satisfaction.
I don't know. I can't find a way of setting this up how I want it, but
then I'm not an extert in this area. I have spent a lot of time fiddling
with the options in this area to keep our phone-bills sensible.
There seems to be no way to stop named calling out whenever it feels like
it (typically several times an hour). The only thing you can do is use
the lines in the standard.filter, which stop named-named packets bringing
the link up.
The problem with this is that you then can't tell all the other machines
on the net to use the local nameserver for nameserving as then all the
requests for names, whether they be 'real' ones from machines wanting to
browse off-site or 'pointless' ones from named just wanting to update
things, look the same to diald.
I currently have things set up so that all the other machines explicitly
specify an off-site nameserver (our ISPs) and have the standard filer
filter out the named-named packets. This basically works, but means I
can't change ISP transparenly to the other machines. it may also not be
an option if you need to use the local nameserver for some reason.
For me I think a better option would be to not run named at all and just
let the resolver library go an ask off-site, but I'm not sure if this
will work. Also it seems that my local /etc/hosts is being ignored some
of the time, and I don't really understand enough about how it all hangs
to gether to work out a) how things should be configured and b) the best
options for all this stuff.
I also find that this set up means that if i turn on the windows machines
they dial out 6 times an hour trying to do netbios lookups. I could block
these, or point them at the local nameserver, but sometimes I want to
look things up off-site so this isn't too great either.
Just to complicate matters I have sveral machines that use dhcp to get
their addresses. I can't work out how these machines can get their names
server to anyone. Is there some mechanism for dhcp to add entries to
/etc/hosts or to tell named which machines have been allocated names, or
does it all have to be done via samba's name-lookup stuff/wins? (I
realise this has nothing to do with diald directly, but I ask as it's all
part of the same set of problems).
I'd be interested to hear how others have their systems set up to make
all these things work at once without havng spurious phone calls all the
time...
Wookey
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