On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Daniel Melameth wrote:
> On 11/15/07, Jonathan Thornburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > (a) When the firewall boots, after the outside network is configured
> > (via /etc/rc running dhclient) a shell/grep/perl script on the
> > firewall copies the DNS server addresses from /etc/resolv.conf
> > into /etc/dhcpd.conf, and only then does the firewall start its
> > dhcpd on the inside interface. dhcpd will then hand out the
> > (ISP-provided) DNS server addresses to clients at the same time
> > it gives them their local addresses, causing the clients to
> > directly query my ISP's DNS servers.
It's generally a bad thing to use public addresses for Windoze machines
(expecially of the Windoze variety), .. so it would be much better to use
offnet addersses internally.
Should not be a problem using the ISPs DNS servers, however, .. they won't
change.
Lee
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