Setting up a FreeBSD gateway

[Teo De Las Heras]

By design dns servers will perform recursive queries through the root
servers for all domains; unless you're hosting the zone then it considers
itself authoritive.  So you can set up a dns server for your network, or use
a public one.

Teo


On 1/4/06, Brian Bobowski <bbobowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> OK, I've tried searching through man pages and such, but I've got kind
> of lost here.
>
> I have one machine that's acting as a gateway for my home PC, in
> addition to running a few local servers. I know I shouldn't do that, but
> the traffic is low and I just don't have room for more computers in my
> room, anyway.
>
> At any rate... I think I've got the packet-forwarding aspect set up OK;
> I compiled a kernel with the options I found in the docs on the matter.
>
> However, I don't know how to set up DNS. Specifically, I want to either
> pass all DNS requests through the gateway, or have the gateway run a
> local DNS that queries my ISP's DNS in turn. Can anyone point me to some
> steps on how to set that up?
>
> A bit of user-friendly instruction on using ipfw would be nice, too; I
> think I'd be able to figure it out in time, but if someone can spare a
> few moments to point out where I can find instructions on e.g. passing
> traffic on certain ports through to the other machine, handling others,
> and blocking the rest, it'd be appreciated. It's specifically the
> forwarding part that has me a bit mystified.
>
> Please reply off-list.
>
> TIA,
>
> -BB
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