[Server-devel] OpenDNS instructions don't work

Eustace Amah eustaceamah at gmail.com
Mon Feb 8 08:05:17 EST 2010


I have configured OpenDNS on two schoolservers and it did not work on the
first instance. It was a magic that it finally worked when i have to rebuild
the domain_config after configuring the OpenDNS forwarders.

Eustace Amah
Nigeria

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:19 AM, Anna <aschoolf at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>  On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Martin Langhoff <
> martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
>> > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Techniques_and_Configuration#Use_OpenDNS
>> > This doesn't work - xs-config.make says it shouldnt be used for
>> > named-xs.conf, and named doesn't work afterwards since the config file
>> > is borked.
>>
>> Good point. I think instead you need to run 'domain_config', no need
>> to pass the domain parameter.
>>
>
> (Sorry for the duplicate email, Martin.  I hit reply instead of reply all)
>
> I just set up 9 XS 0.6 boxes and noticed editing named-xs.conf.in was
> really touchy.  What I ended up doing post-install:
>
> First thing after first bootup - followed the OpenDNS instructions on the
> wiki.  But I didn't bother to restart named since I'm about to reboot.
>
> (Then I did some other things - set up the static IP for eth0, edited
> sshd_config.in and sshd_config for the port and to allow passwords, edited
> iptables for my new ssh port, added a user, then edited /etc/group for
> newuser and root in the mail group.)
>
> Last, the domain_config thing.  Then reboot.
>
> I learned to be really, really careful when editing named-xs.conf.inbecause if I made a typo and then tried to fix it later, I could never get
> named to start.  Ended up just starting over when that happened.
>
> Anyway, things seem to be working all right with OpenDNS filtering.  In my
> case anyway.
>
> Anna Schoolfield
> Birmingham
>
>
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