From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 16 10:14:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.147.1.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7985E37B4EC for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:14:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.128] (host-64-65-195-58.choiceone.net [64.65.195.58]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1GIELK24477 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:14:21 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:14:25 -0500 Subject: dns resolver questions From: postroad To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="MS_Mac_OE_3065174065_1673849_MIME_Part" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --MS_Mac_OE_3065174065_1673849_MIME_Part Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Mike Meyer writes: > Len Conrad types: > > >the system doesn't seem to know where to direct dns requests. > > man resolv.conf > > If you're using a dynamic IP address, you may want to check with your > ISP, and see if they are providing the name server addresses via > DHCP. If so, you need to check the dhcp setup. If he is using dhclient (which is the stock FreeBSD DHCP) then he can see what info the ISP is providing by reading /var/db/dhclient.leases Nope. I'm set up with static IP on a private network behind a router running NAT. The router is running DHCP client for it's WAN information. It is using port forwarding as follows; 80:192.168.1.80 21-24: 192.168.1.80 This allows originating requests from the outside to get passed to the apache etc...(You probably know how NAT works (_?_) IP&sub of FreeBSD 192.168.1.80/24 gateway of freebsd 192.168.1.1 (router via, "route add default 192.168.1.1") TCP routing works fine. I can see my apache web servers from the net abroad. Oddly enough I don't have resolve.conf in /etc. I have the list of name servers from my ISP. Don't worry about bothering me with details, I'm pretty ignorant. --MS_Mac_OE_3065174065_1673849_MIME_Part Content-type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable dns resolver questions Mike Meyer writes:
> Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com> types:
> > >the system doesn't seem to know where to direct dns requests.=
> > man resolv.conf
>
> If you're using a dynamic IP address, you may want to check with your<= BR> > ISP, and see if they are providing the name server addresses via
> DHCP. If so, you need to check the dhcp setup.

If he is using dhclient (which is the stock FreeBSD DHCP) then he can
see what info the ISP is providing by reading /var/db/dhclient.leases


Nope. I'm set up with static IP on a private network behind a router runnin= g NAT. The router is running DHCP client for it's WAN information. It is usi= ng port forwarding as follows;

80:192.168.1.80
21-24: 192.168.1.80

This allows originating requests from the outside to get passed to the apac= he etc...(You probably know how NAT works (_?_)

IP&sub of FreeBSD       192.168.1.80/24 gateway of freebsd      192.168.1.1 (router via, &= quot;route add default 192.168.1.1")

TCP routing works fine. I can see my apache web servers from the net abroad= . Oddly enough I don't have resolve.conf in /etc. I have the list of name se= rvers from my ISP. Don't worry about bothering me with details, I'm pretty i= gnorant.

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