Re: Running public DNS server on iSeries -- MIDRANGE-L

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I did run a public DNS on an AS/400, it worked beutifull, I had no problems. When I set two default routes (using two different ISPs) I wanted to set the DNS so it will respond acording to the ISP from wich the request came but I had to abandon because I had to buy a windos machine to do it.

I hoppe now we have a proper command or a link in the Web Admin, but I didn't check yet. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Neil Palmer/DPS wrote:

I think the following is possible, though maybe not advisable. Any comments?

Have a customer switching ISP's from one who was providing DNS service to one who won't (because the latter has DSL and the former is only ISDN). They only have one system, the iSeries, behind a firewall. I was wondering about running a DNS server on the iSeries for their public domain, and seting the firewall to forward DNS port 53 traffic to the internal address of their iSeries. Is this possible? (May be an issue there too in that the internal DNS address for their domain should resolve to a 192.168.x.x address, so maybe that's a showstopper right there). I'm thinking I'd be better off signing them up with one of the free DNS service providers.
Also, DNS on port 53 uses only TCP. not UDP - is that right?
...Neil

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