Private DNS for a VPN...

[Netfortius]

On Monday 03 April 2006 14:54, Eric wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to setup a private DNS server across an (internet) VPN.  The
> computer that will be used for this will be running RH9.
>
> I expect this to be hairy, so I'm not going to ask how-to.   However, armed
> with enough reference material, I'm sure I can figure it out.
>
> Q: Does "DNS and Bind" by O'Reilly cover this topic in detail?
>
> Thanks...

You may not need a whole book for this, unless I misunderstand your 
requirement. I believe almost all decent VPN solutions should be able to push 
the IP address of an internal DNS, to the client, together with the client IP 
address, and other stuff - via dhcp. I am doing it with Netscreen, but - as 
your request was in reference to open source - here is a "lucky" finding from 
Google: 

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7949

... look at:

push "dhcp-option DNS 172.16.1.7"  #push DNS entries to client

Stefan