On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 02:21 am, J. T. Farmer wrote: > Malcolm Kay wrote: > >On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:06 am, Jeremy Bogan wrote: > >>You could try running a caching DNS server locally, DjbDNS > >> is simple to setup and get going. > > > >Yes, I have thought that maybe a local simple caching dns > >server would help; and if I can't otherwise fix the problem > >I'll give it a go. And I appreciate your suggestion of > >DjbDNS. > > > >It does seem however that this should not be necessary. > > It is necessary when you have multiple machines and you take > away the connection to their DNS. > > So, you have a couple of choices. the first is to setup each > machine such that it refers to it's local files first, then
If you can find my original query you will see that I have /etc/ host.conf and /etc/nsswitch set to go first to the local files, and the appropriate entries are in /etc/hosts; and that is why I felt a local DNS server should be unnecessary -- but it doesn't seem to work out. It seems that later releases of open_sshd by default do a reverse DNS lookup. See Robert Marella's response. Even if the "UseDNS no" option works it looks like the local caching server might be the way to go. > looks for the remote DNS or you setup a local caching server. > Personally, I would go for the second choice. A local server > can be responsible for DNS for all local machines (including > itself) as well as referring & caching external lookups. this > makes life a lot simpler for configuring the other computers. > > John > Thanks, Malcolm _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
