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Using MaraDNS as a recursive DNS server
This document is a step-by-step guide to setting up MaraDNS as a recursive
DNS server. It assumes that MaraDNS is already compiled and installed.
Once MaraDNS is installed:
- The mararcfile needs to be changed before MaraDNS will
function as a recursive DNS server. Here is a mararc
file that will work as a recursive DNS server
- If one wishes to limit the range of IPs that can access the
recursive DNS server, change the following line:
recursive_acl = "0.0.0.0/32"
Replace the 0.0.0.0/32 with the range of IPs that one wishes
to have contact the name server. For example, if one has an office
which uses IPs in the form 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2, etc.,
and wishes to have only 192.168.1.any be allowed to make
recursive queries:
recursive_acl = "192.168.1.0/24"
- Once this is done, other machines can contact the MaraDNS server to
perform DNS queries. For example, MaraDNS is now a DNS server which
Windows 98 can use in "Control Panel -> Network -> TCP/IP -> DNS
configuration", or a UNIX system can point to from
/etc/resolv.conf.
- More information about using MaraDNS in recursive mode is available
from the MaraDNS manual page and the
mararc manual page.
- If one wishes to have MaraDNS contact other recursive name servers,
instead of contacting the actual root servers to process recursive
queries, use upstream_servers instead of root_servers.
See the mararc manual page for more details.