On Aug 3, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Ed W wrote:

> On 03/08/2011 16:49, Tom Eastep wrote:
>> 
>> On Aug 3, 2011, at 7:42 AM, Jamie Begin wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm using Shorewall with a load-balanced muti-ISP config along with
>>> LSM for failover.  It's working great, except for DNS requests.  I'd
>>> appreciate some advice on how to best configure this.
>>> 
>>> The WAN connections are a T1 through XO and a cable connection through
>>> Comcast.  About 80% of the traffic is routed out the Comcast
>>> connection under normal connections.  I would like to ensure that DNS
>>> requests that leave the Comcast interface are routed to Comcast's DNS
>>> servers and vice versa for XO.  I know I can add some entries in
>>> tc-rules, but this only solves part of the problem. 
> ...
> 
>> I suggest that you run a caching-only name server on the firewall and
>> not bother with your ISPs' name servers.
> 
> ...
> 
> 
> This still leaves you the problem of what to do if a client isn't
> configured to use the caching nameserver on the firewall... (DHCP might
> help of course)


If hosts behind the gateway are configuring their own name servers, there are 
more basic problems with the installation than the multi-ISP issue.

-Tom

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