DNS question

[the_rock]

Hey everyone,

Sorry if this may sound like a dumb/stupid/silly question (or all 3 together lol), but I had customer ask me something that no one ever asked me in all my years with CP. So, they wanted to know if Check Point has their own DNS servers like Fortinet does that customers could use? Im pretty sure the answer is no, as I had never seen or heard of any, but wanted to be 100% sure.

Below is what Im referring to on Fortigates.

Best and thanks as always for the help.

Andy

 

[the_rock · Accepted solution]

As I suspected, the answer is no, SE also confirmed the same.

Andy

[PhoneBoy]

Officially, no.
However, dnsmasq has been unofficially on Gaia OS for quite some time.
I even wrote something about it a decade ago (including how to use it): https://phoneboy.org/2014/09/02/fun-with-check-point-dynamic-ip-gateways-in-r77-dot-20-with-gaia/
In the R82 EA, I noticed it’s actually running.
Not sure what it is officially used for as I haven’t dug into it.

[the_rock]

Funny you gave that link, as I was reading it before making the post and even customer told me about it 🙂

Will test in in R82 lab.

Andy