Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 09:51:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Gary Hall <gary.hall@mcg-graphics.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Internal networking problem Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808120951230.10649-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <35CFF2AA.F3E919E@mcg-graphics.com>
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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
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