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Im trying to setup a 'whitelist' DNS server for a small school network to prevent the kids accessing inappropriate sites (ie. students should only be able to access a pre-selected list of sites) and be forwarded to an access-denied page if they try accessing such a page.

Im aware this can be done using Squid3 but in this specific case its not a viable option.

I read the man named page as well as a number of tech sites and Im not having much luck. If any one could give me nudge in the right direction, I'd really appreciate it.

-Cheers

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BIND is really unsuited to this scenario, since it is primarily a large-scale authoritative nameserver.

You could, of course, define forward zones for everything you wish to whitelist, and then have those zones resolved by a second instance, but that is convoluted beyond measure.

Just use a proxy with good access control, such as Squid-cache.

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  • Unfortunately we cant use squid (as mentioned) for banwidth reasons. but if you have any other possible solutions I would really love to hear them. as it stands I think I will be using powerdns
    – garyj
    Apr 27, 2012 at 14:20
  • -1 Your answer is to use something the OP said wasn't possible.
    – Andrew Ensley
    Aug 23, 2013 at 20:38

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