On Thu, 07 Mar 2002 23:18:34 +0100
David TAILLANDIER <david.taillandier@domainename.com> wrote:

> Then: 
> How can I tell the NetBSD box to use DNS reverse lookup only for 
> "real" internet adresses ? 
> Not for 192.168.0.0/24 or 10.0.0.0/8 (or what I want in fact because 
> we have some other LANs connected via 'vtun').
> 
> Or: 
> where can I find any documentation because it seems to be very hard to 
> find something written about NetBSD (or I'm too dumb to find it).

I have a similar setup to yours, I don't know about the reverse lookup
issue, it is probably trying to find the canonical name of the host you
are pinging.

The best solution to this problem is to run a local DNS on the LAN which
is authoritive for 192.168.0.0/16 (forward and reverse lookups) and
forwards all other traffic to the DNS of your ISP, with a cache so you get
faster lookups. I use bind to do this, but there are probably better
(simpler) DNS servers capable of this.

Should you want to use bind, the Linux DNS-HOWTO makes interesting
reading.

-Andrew

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