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<i>This document has been placed in the public domain by Sam 
Trenholme</i>

<H1>Using MaraDNS as a recursive DNS server</H1>

This document is a step-by-step guide to setting up MaraDNS as a recursive 
DNS server.  It assumes that MaraDNS is already <A 
href=compile.html>compiled and installed</A>.

Once MaraDNS is installed:

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<LI>The <tt>mararc</tt>file needs to be changed before MaraDNS will 
    function as a recursive DNS server.  <A 
    href=../examples/example_recursive_mararc.txt>Here is a mararc
    file that will work as a recursive DNS server</A>

<LI>If one wishes to limit the range of IPs that can access the
    recursive DNS server, change the following line:

    <blockquote><tt>recursive_acl = "<b>0.0.0.0/32</b>"</tt>
    </blockquote>

    Replace the <b>0.0.0.0/32</b> with the range of IPs that one wishes
    to have contact the name server.  For example, if one has an office
    which uses IPs in the form 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2, etc.,
    and wishes to have only 192.168.1.<i>any</i> be allowed to make
    recursive queries:

    <blockquote>
    <tt>recursive_acl = "<b>192.168.1.0/24</b>"</tt>
    </blockquote>

<LI>Once this is done, other machines can contact the MaraDNS server to
    perform DNS queries.  For example, MaraDNS is now a DNS server which 
    Windows 98 can use in "Control Panel -> Network -> TCP/IP -> DNS 
    configuration", or a UNIX system can point to from 
    <tt>/etc/resolv.conf</tt>.
  
<LI>More information about using MaraDNS in recursive mode is available
    from the <A href=man.maradns.html>MaraDNS manual page</A> and the
    <A href=man.mararc.html>mararc manual page</A>.

<LI>If one wishes to have MaraDNS contact other recursive name servers,
    instead of contacting the actual root servers to process recursive
    queries, use <tt>upstream_servers</tt> instead of <tt>root_servers</tt>.
    See the <A href=man.mararc.html>mararc manual page</A> for more details.

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