I've got a server that is going ip masqerading over a dilaup and running a dns server. It is using dial on demand so the routing shows that there is always a link up. All teh clients are using the server for dns. I want all local questions (intranet) to be answered by our dns server without trigering and looking up via the internet. If the dns question isn't local, I want it forwarded to the dns servers our isp gives us. If that fails, I want our dns server to use teh hits file.. Our /etc/named.conf is: options { directory "/etc/dns"; /* */ // query-source address * port 53; forwarders { 207.171.208.10; 207.171.208.11; }; }; zone "hearing.org" { type master; file "domain.hosts"; }; zone "1.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA" { type master; file "domain.reverse"; }; zone "." { type hint; file "named.ca"; }; zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" { type master; file "named.local"; }; Is this the right configuration? I know it works, but I fear that it using teh forwarders and hints and then the local stuff when that fails. Also, recently our phone line died and we had no dialup, and our internal e-mail becare very very slow I think because of dns problems and waiting for timeouts. Or is this inevitable since the dns server sees a gateway to out outside and tries it and must wait until it timesout because of dial on demand. Ben Recently our phone line went dead and so we couldn't dial to the internet and because of dns attempts our internal network before very very slow. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org