On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Peter Whaite wrote:
> Charles Oliver Wolff said:
>> Got diald configured OK, but shortly after my RH 6.0 machine boots up, it
>> dials out to do DNS lookups, presumably, to refresh tables, without any
>> info requests from any other boxes on the network (my Linux box is a local
>> DNS server for our in-house LAN). This defeats the purpose of diald, of
>> course. What can I do about this?
> In the end I disabled the name server and used /etc/hosts instead.
> Pretty unsatisfactory.
Don't do that ... run the nameserver.
> Let me know if you ever find a way to keep the dns running.
Make sure that the following lines are in your standard.filter
near the top:
ignore tcp tcp.dest=tcp.domain
ignore tcp tcp.source=tcp.domain
and place the following lines in your /etc/named.conf:
options {
/* ... */
query-source address * port 53;
/* ... */
};
Ed
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