From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 11 05:54:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA25809 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 05:54:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (cyclone.degnet.baynet.de [194.95.214.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA25791 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 05:54:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malte.lance@gmx.net) Received: from neuron.webmore.de (unverified [194.95.214.188]) by cyclone.degnet.baynet.de (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:55:25 +0200 Received: (from malte.lance@gmx.net) by neuron.webmore.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA00619; Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:50:01 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:50:00 +0200 (CEST) To: Gary Hall Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Internal networking problem In-Reply-To: <35CFF2AA.F3E919E@mcg-graphics.com> References: <35CFF2AA.F3E919E@mcg-graphics.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13776.15639.314949.374948@neuron.webmore.de> Reply-To: malte.lance@gmx.net Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gary Hall writes: > 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 ? That's exactly the point. Solution: Set /etc/host.conf to the order "hosts then bind" Setup /etc/hosts If that's not solving all your DNS problems, use an internal nameserver that resolves all the internal that a know by default. For your internal names, there is no need to contact the ISP. Malte. > > Apologies for the apparent dim-ness of this question as we are new to > Unix / FreeBSD but we are willing to learn. > > Gary Hall > > > 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