>For some reason outgoing DNS Servers requests seem to trigger the dialer.
>Because when I kill the DNS server it doesn't dial.. but then again..
>lookups don't work either.. how do i make the DNS server not do whatever
>it's doing.
This problem is in the faq and its a nasty one. But I think I have a
workable solution. Note that the latest bind doesn't make queries on port
53, so the lines in diald.options to ignore nameservers no longer works
(unless you force bind to use port 53... but its not a very good solution).
First off, add reverse and forward zones for the local subnet; quite a few
services (qpopper for example) want to do REAL reverse DNS lookups on IP
addresses, bypassing /etc/hosts, /etc/hosts.allow, etc. (I don't know if
the forward lookups are essential, but they're easy enough to do.) Next,
put "forward only" into named.conf, along with "forwarders" to your ISPs
nameserver. Named otherwise wants look up the root zone on startup.
With /etc/resolv.conf pointing to the localhost, it seems to work alright.
Now, who's got the solution for local TCP connections changing IP address
(masquerading?)
Cheers,
Brian Jonnes
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