Does NAT require DNS (named)?

[Gary Dunn]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 17:05:12 -0400 mikel king <mikel.king at olivent.com> wrote:

> On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:57 PM, Gary Dunn wrote:
> 
>> Continuing the saga of building a wireless access point, what is the  
>> best way to provide DNS service to the dowstream network? Seems like  
>> all I need is a simple pass-through. For that named seems like  
>> overkill. Anyone have an /etc/named/named.conf that does that?
> 
> 
> Depends on how your internal LAN is configured. Generally if there are  
> no internal servers then you can forgo deploying a DNS server. Simply  
> setup your firewall IPFW or pf or whatever you are using to allow  
> clients to go out to the net and look names up. You will likely need a  
> dhcp server though so that your wireless clients can auto-discover the  
> appropriate network settings, but you can elect to do that manually as  
> well if it's your
> desire.

I failed to mention that the same FreeBSD box will provide file and printer services via Samba, all clients will be Windows Vista, and there will bo no other servers on the downstream network. I cannot rely on clients editing their LMHOSTS files ... I need plug and play. Do I need a DNS server on the downstream network for Windows clients to connect to Samba?
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