From eff5a68ce23c1d26ed107783d51a05b1dd00f7d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Poessinger Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 15:32:29 +0100 Subject: dns-forwarding: use new cfgcmd/opcmd syntax --- docs/services/dns-forwarding.rst | 98 ++++++++++++++++++---------------------- 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/services/dns-forwarding.rst b/docs/services/dns-forwarding.rst index a431469e..707d7858 100644 --- a/docs/services/dns-forwarding.rst +++ b/docs/services/dns-forwarding.rst @@ -4,75 +4,63 @@ DNS Forwarding ############## -Use DNS forwarding if you want your router to function as a DNS server for the -local network. There are several options, the easiest being 'forward all -traffic to the system DNS server(s)' (defined with set system name-server): +VyOS provides DNS infrastructure for small networks. It is designed to be +lightweight and have a small footprint, suitable for resource constrained +routers and firewalls, for this we utilize PowerDNS recursor. -.. code-block:: none - - set service dns forwarding system - -Manually setting DNS servers for forwarding: - -.. code-block:: none +VyOS DNS forwarder doe not require an upstream DNS server. It can serve as a +full recursive DNS server - but it can also forward queries to configurable +upstream DNS servers. - set service dns forwarding name-server 8.8.8.8 - set service dns forwarding name-server 8.8.4.4 +.. cfgcmd:: set service dns forwarding system -Manually setting DNS servers with IPv6 connectivity: +Forward incoming DNS queries to the DNS servers configured under the ``system +name-server`` nodes. -.. code-block:: none +.. cfgcmd:: set service dns forwarding name-server
- set service dns forwarding name-server 2001:4860:4860::8888 - set service dns forwarding name-server 2001:4860:4860::8844 +Send all DNS queries to the IPv4/IPv6 DNS server specified under `
`. +You can configure multiple nameservers here. -Setting a forwarding DNS server for a specific domain: +.. cfgcmd:: set service dns forwarding domain server
-.. code-block:: none +Forward received queries for a particular domain (specified via `domain-name`) +to a given name-server. Multiple nameservers can be specified. - set service dns forwarding domain example.com server 192.0.2.1 +.. note:: This also works for reverse-lookup zones e.g. ``18.172.in-addr.arpa``. -Set which networks or clients are allowed to query the DNS Server. Allow from all: +.. cfgcmd:: set service dns forwarding allow-from -.. code-block:: none +Given the fact that open DNS recursors could be used on DDOS amplification +attacts, you must configure the networks which are allowed to use this recursor. +A network of ``0.0.0.0/0`` or ``::/0`` would allow all IPv4 and IPv6 networks +to query this server. This is on general a bad idea. - set service dns forwarding allow-from 0.0.0.0/0 +Example +======= -Examples -======== +Router with two interfaces eth0 (WAN link) and eth1 (LAN) does want to make +use of DNS split-horizon for example.com. -Example 1 ---------- - -Router with two interfaces eth0 (WAN link) and eth1 (LAN). Split DNS for example.com. - -* DNS request for a local domain (example.com) get forwarded to 192.0.2.1 -* Other DNS requests are forwarded to Google's DNS servers. -* The IP address for the LAN interface is 192.168.0.1. +* DNS request for example.com need to get forwarded to IPv4 address 192.0.2.254 + and IPv6 address 2001:db8:cafe::1 +* All other DNS requests are forwarded to DNS server listening on 192.0.2.1, + 192.0.2.2, 2001:db8::1:ffff and 2001:db8::2:ffff +* DNS server is listening on the LAN interface addresses only, 192.168.1.254 + for IPv4 and 2001:db8::ffff for IPv6 +* Only clients from the LAN segment (192.168.1.0/24) are allowed to use this + server .. code-block:: none - set service dns forwarding domain example.com server 192.0.2.1 - set service dns forwarding name-server 8.8.8.8 - set service dns forwarding name-server 8.8.4.4 - set service dns forwarding listen-address 192.168.0.1 - set service dns forwarding allow-from 0.0.0.0/0 - -Example 2 ---------- - -Same as example 1 but with additional IPv6 addresses for Google's public DNS -servers. - -The IP addresses for the LAN interface are 192.168.0.1 and 2001:db8::1 - -.. code-block:: none + set service dns forwarding domain example.com server 192.0.2.254 + set service dns forwarding domain example.com server 2001:db8:cafe::1 + set service dns forwarding name-server 192.0.2.1 + set service dns forwarding name-server 192.0.2.2 + set service dns forwarding name-server 2001:db8::1:ffff + set service dns forwarding name-server 2001:db8::2:ffff + set service dns forwarding listen-address 192.168.1.254 + set service dns forwarding listen-address 2001:db8::ffff + set service dns forwarding allow-from 192.168.1.0/24 + set service dns forwarding allow-from 2001:db8::/64 - set service dns forwarding domain example.com server 192.0.2.1 - set service dns forwarding name-server 8.8.8.8 - set service dns forwarding name-server 8.8.4.4 - set service dns forwarding name-server 2001:4860:4860::8888 - set service dns forwarding name-server 2001:4860:4860::8844 - set service dns forwarding listen-address 2001:db8::1 - set service dns forwarding listen-address 192.168.0.1 - set service dns forwarding allow-from 0.0.0.0/0 -- cgit v1.2.3