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kiss-o-matic
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 Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:27 am Post subject: forwarding DNS requests |
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| I have a laptop w/ a really crappy NIC. For some reason, it will not resolve hostnames, but it can reach outside my network. (It's on a Windows laptop, FYI). Is there a way to make my Linux box act as a DNS conduit. I don't want to have a full on DNS server via bind... just something that will make the DSN requests on behalf of the Windows box & forward them. |
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gerdesj
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| Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:55 am Post subject: Re: forwarding DNS requests |
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| kiss-o-matic wrote: | | I have a laptop w/ a really crappy NIC. For some reason, it will not resolve hostnames, but it can reach outside my network. (It's on a Windows laptop, FYI). Is there a way to make my Linux box act as a DNS conduit. I don't want to have a full on DNS server via bind... just something that will make the DSN requests on behalf of the Windows box & forward them. |
Well you will need a DNS server of some sort to do this. A caching only BIND isn't hard to set up (pretty much "out of the box") or Tiny DNS is another option.
In other words something that make DNS requests on behalf of the Windows box *IS* a DNS server!
Have a look around /usr/portage/net-dns and use Google to get some info and try what takes your fancy.
Cheers
Jon |
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