Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

[Craig White]

On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 10:34 -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
> Running your own caching resolver is pretty trivial on RHEL/Fedora. Just 
> need to install the caching-nameserver package (which pulls in deps when 
> you use yum to install it). You then need to have:
> nameserver 127.0.0.1
> first in your /etc/resolv.conf file so it gets used. If your computer is 
> directly attached to the cox modem, that'll be a pain as dhcp resets 
> your resolv.conf file. If you're using cox, you really should have a 
> router with nat between your computer and the cox modem though, so your 
> computer isn't sitting on a public address.
> 
> I don't know off hand how to set up a local resolver on Ubuntu. I don't 
> really need one myself because my IPCop is my resolver. ;)
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in the configuration of your network adaptor, you can turn off DHCP
client changes to /etc/resolv.conf

PEERDNS = no

various ways to accomplish this depending upon whether you are using
NetworkManager or not, which distro, etc.

I thought ipcop provided dns forwarding to the DNS servers set up within
ipcop and didn't actually provide any DNS resolution by itself so if you
use DHCP on ipcop on a Cox connection, you are back on Cox's name
servers.

Craig


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