From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 22: 2:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.bellatlantic.net (mail1.bellatlantic.net [199.45.32.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9B3037B4EC for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 22:01:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from helix (adsl-207-68-49-34.bellatlantic.net [207.68.49.34]) by mail1.bellatlantic.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id BAA13085; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 01:02:01 -0500 (EST) From: "Adam Crosby" To: "Greg MATTHEWS" , Subject: RE: dns lookup with ppp -nat Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 01:14:50 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: <5592.981468523@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Set your internal boxes to use your ISP's DNS? Make sure you have the nameservers set in /etc/resolv.conf on the BSD box as well? The way I have my NAT box setup, is just to provide filtering/forwarding. I set my internal machines (3 windows, 1 bsd, 1 debian) to hit my ISP's DNS nameservers by IP address. I found that it's MUCH faster just to go that route, instead of trying to forward the lookups and stuff. -Adam -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Greg MATTHEWS Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 9:09 AM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: dns lookup with ppp -nat how can i get my -nat'ed machines to use my isp dns? do i have to run a dns server on the nat box? seems excessive as i only have 2 machines at home (possibly 3 later). current setup: freebsd on i386 running ppp -nat and netbsd on sparc classic. the classic can access outside using ip numbers but wont perform dns lookups. cheers GREG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message