Simple DNS

[Andrew Gould]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Steve Jardine <sjardine at acm.org> wrote:
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>    I have a small network I run at my house. It has maybe 4 systems, plus up to 4 more from time to time (kids Xbox/game servers). Since the IP numbers are local only, I need to have a local DNS that will server up the local domain only.
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>    Bottom line, I would like a DNS that responds to local system queries only, and only replies with the local domain information. if is not the local Domain, I want the DNS server to failover to the remote DNS servers at my provider's network.
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>    I have bind 9 running now, but it does not fail over. Instead it acts as the DNS server for the LAN, serving up responses for any DNS query made to it by my LAN systems. I do not like the huge traffic is has over my meager connection. I also do not like the fact that it opens a lot of connections at one time through my LAN router (up to 200 at some times).
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>    I am not married to BIND, but the system running the DNS is old. PIII, 1 GB ram, 100BaseT.
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>   Steve
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> Steve Jardine <sjardine at acm.org>
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Since it's a small number of local hosts, would it suffice to put the
list in /etc/hosts files on each system?

Andrew