Subj : Pre-releases of the DNS Utilities for OS/2 To : All From : Jonathan de Boyne Pollard Date : Fri Jan 12 2001 08:40 pm Currently, one has two choices for DNS servers that will run on OS/2: ISC's BIND (ported by IBM and by others) and Bob Eager's NAMED. Soon there will be a third. A while back, I said, in the Fidonet OS2 echo, that I'd like to see a DNS server for OS/2 that operated along the same sorts of lines as "djbdns" does on Unix. So I'm in the process of writing one. As with much of my software projects, there's a pre-release testing group. So if you want to, you can get in on the act right now. Pre-release testers receive each of the pre-release distribution archives that I make, and have access to a non-backboned Fidonet echo, "JdeBP" (I didn't choose the echotag!), for discussion, feedback, suggestions, observations, and testing reports. People who join the pre-release testing group have a moral obligation to run the programs and report their experiences in the echo, but their only actual obligation is that they must agree not to make the pre-release softwares available to the general public in any way. This is a quality control measure, more than anything else. I don't want incomplete and potentially buggy versions of my softwares entering general circulation. (The eventual released versions of the DNS Utilities will be freely distributable, of course.) The DNS Utilities is intended to be able to fulfil the DNS needs of anyone from a home user with a dial-up connection to an full-blown ISP. The package comprises various sorts of server daemons that provide various sorts of DNS service, a couple of utility programs, and a replacement DNS client library DLL. I won't go into too much detail here, because it's very late and I want to get some sleep. So here are two small tasters. First, here's how to run a forwarding caching proxy DNS server on your own machine, pointing to your ISP's DNS server on (say) 255.1.2.3 : START /C DNSFCPD 255.1.2.3 Notice the distinct absence of "boot" files and "zone" files. (-: Second, here's how, if you have the resolving caching proxy DNS server (another server in the DNS Utilities) running, you tell it to redirect queries for the entire domain "turtil.internal." from the public DNS proper to a private DNS content server of your own for that domain, that is listening on the IP address 10.0.0.15 on a machine on your LAN: ECHO 10.0.0.15 > Data\Servers\@turtil.internal. If the above has you curious, enthused, or interested, join the pre-release testing group and play with the pre-releases of the DNS Utilities for yourself. Drop a netmail to Andy Roberts at 1:109/921.0 (who organises it) for details, telling him that you agree to the (hardly onerous) membership condition mentioned above. ¯ JdeBP ® .... Fera res, facis cor meum canere; facis omnia striosa --- FleetStreet 1.22 NR * Origin: JdeBP's point, using Squish (2:440/4.3) .