From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 12 09:52:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA24167 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:52:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA24152 for ; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:52:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA15761; Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:52:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:51:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Gary Hall cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Internal networking problem In-Reply-To: <35CFF2AA.F3E919E@mcg-graphics.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Aug 1998, Gary Hall wrote: > We have a FreeBSD machine which is used as an Intranet Server. We also > have a number of other machines that connect to this via TCP/IP. We have > another machine that acts as a router which is not a FreeBSD machine. > > When we try to connect to the FreeBSD machine internally via FTP or > rlogin, the FreeBSD machine tries to connect to the Internet via our > router. Our router then tries to dial up onto the Internet via ISDN. > Until the connection is made, it refuses to accept any internal > connections. > > All our internal machines are set up with the IP address 192.9.200.xxx. > The gateway setting for the FreeBSD machine is set to the correct IP > address of the gateway machine and the DNS setting is set to the DNS > setting of our ISP. We wondered if this was the problem - should we have > an internal DNS server or have we missed something elementary ? Yes, you should have an internal DNS server. The machine is doing a DNS lookup, which ahs to go off-site to resolve, thus the dialout. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message