[K12OSN] IPCop DNS Issues
Moon
moon at smbis.com
Fri Apr 3 02:34:40 UTC 2009
Try pfSense, it's way more robust and stable than IPCop. Also has a lot
of package add-ons, like squid and squidguard for web caching and
filtering. Gives more granular control. Runs on low power systems like
PC Engines ALEX Geode based SBCs.
On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 22:18 -0400, j.w. thomas wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I recently set up a box and installed IPCop on it to serve as our
> firewall. It apparently runs a caching DNS server, but for the life of
> me, I cannot figure out where it gets ITS dns info. And as you might
> guess, I'm having some pretty severe DNS troubles.
>
> Lookups are taking a full minute. That means that any webpage with
> say... five different domains in it takes a minimum of five minutes to load.
>
> In the K12ltsp box I changed /etc/resolv.conf so that it uses a name
> server other than ipcop, but that didn't seem to help. If I ping
> something by ip address, it comes back immediately, but if I ping by
> name, it takes a minute, and THEN I get good ping times.
>
> I know this is not the IPCop mailing list, but I'm asking here because
> this is a friendly (and knowledgeable) crowd. Also, I would entertain
> the thought of using something other than IPCop, so if anyone has a
> suggestion, please! I'm all ears!
>
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