Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2001 07:37:01 -0600 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: RoKlein@roklein.de, "f.johan.beisser" <jan@caustic.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: PPPoE on DSL Clients Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20011124073701.01031c68@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <E167cWJ-0008BE-00@mrvdom01.schlund.de> References: <3.0.5.32.20011124065606.0100ffd0@mail.sage-american.com> <3.0.5.32.20011123232154.0100ffd0@mail.sage-american.com> <3.0.5.32.20011124065606.0100ffd0@mail.sage-american.com>
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I running DNS on 192.168.0.1 (the gateway).... I tried pointing the clients to the ISP nameserver, but no change... At 03:08 PM 11.24.2001 +0100, Robert Klein wrote: >On Saturday, 24. November 2001 13:56, you wrote: >>...yes, pointed to the gateway 192.168.0.1 >>>dumb question, but do the internal hosts have a DNS server configured? > >That's the problem. You have to point the hosts to a DNS server. So you have >either to run DNS on 192.168.0.1, or point the clients to the same name >server your gateway points to. > >The entries in the gateway's resolv.conf are used for requests originating >from the gateway only. > >You could, however, install a forwarding DNS server on the gateway, that gets >your clients requests and forwards them to the "real" DNS server, if you >don't want your clients to point to an outside server... > >Regards, >Robert Klein > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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