Re: Where do I set another DNS server?

Dexter Filmore <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.m0n0wall
Message-ID <[email protected]>
You got me all wrong. Think simple. All I want is a my computers to query a 
different DNS than the ISP's.

Am Freitag, 10. Juli 2009 16:22:30 schrieb Bob Gustafson:
> I think what you are saying is that you would like to have a local DNS
> for your own computers, but yet still be able to access the ISP's DNS
> for web traveling.
>
> The local DNS needs to have DNS forwarding enabled so that you get
> results from the world. You can restrict dns inquiries coming from the
> outside for information about your local machines.
>
> These things you set up on your networked computers, not within
> m0n0wall.
>
> You need to do some reading here. You could Google for:
>
> Split horizon dns
>
> Also, djbdns provides tools to do this.
>
> Bob G
>
> On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 15:35 +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote:
> > I am on cable, DHCP and would like to use another DNS server than the one
> > assigned by my ISP.
> >
> > I would heve entered them in the general setup and disabled
> > "Allow DNS server list to be overridden by DHCP/PPP on WAN"
> >
> > but was told on IRC I would rather have to use a DNS forwarder.
> >
> > Which one is correct?
> >
> > Next thing: if forwarder is correct, which ione? There are two options
> > and I can't even understand why:
> >
> > Host	Domain	IP	Description
> >
> > and
> >
> > Domain	IP	Description
> >
> > "Domain" means all my computers and "Host" only one machine on my net?
>
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