On Fri, Nov 2, 2001 9:34 AM, Jon <mailto:jons@dotnet.com> wrote:
>ok, I have a small network, the gateway runs a dns server which lets all
the
>network know about each other.
>
>Now I wish to connect the gateway machine to the internet via a modem (I
>suppose that doesn't matter)
>
>Do I need to have the dns server/gateway to have itself as it's dns
server???
>
>Can I just have the dns servers on the gate way as the ones from my isp
and
>then the rest of the network use the gateway as a dns server???
>
>If I DO need to have the gateway using itself as a dns server how do I use
the
>2 servers from my isp?? what should my resolv.conf look like?
>
>Thanks
>

on my gateway machine NetBSD-1.5.1:
 cat /etc/resolv.conf
search zhome.org  # local net name
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 192.168.1.31

##EOF

 cat /etc/named.conf

# @(#)named.boot 5.1 (Berkeley) 6/30/90
# boot file for primary name server
# Note that there should be one primary entry for each SOA record.

options {
        directory "/etc/namedb";
        cleaning-interval 8640;
        lame-ttl 60;
        max-ncache-ttl 60;
        listen-on { 192.168/16; 127/8; };
        forwarders {
                206.191.XXX.XXX; # your ISP's ns.
        };
        forwarders {
                206.191.XXX.XXX; # your ISP's ns.
        };

        sortlist {
                { localhost; localnets; };
                { localnets; };
                { { { 192.168.1/24; 192.168.2/24; 192.168.3/24; }; };
                };
        };

};

# type domain source host/file backup file
#
# primary name server boot file.
# The network number (192.168) is assigned here.
#
zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "zone/named.cache";
};

zone "zhome.org" {
        type master;
        file "zone/zhome.org";
};

zone "127.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "zone/127";
};

zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "zone/192.168.1";
};

zone "2.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "zone/192.168.2";
};

zone "3.168.192.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "zone/192.168.3";
};


##EOF





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