Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 14:50:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Malte Lance <malte.lance@gmx.net> To: Gary Hall <gary.hall@mcg-graphics.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Internal networking problem Message-ID: <13776.15639.314949.374948@neuron.webmore.de> In-Reply-To: <35CFF2AA.F3E919E@mcg-graphics.com> References: <35CFF2AA.F3E919E@mcg-graphics.com>
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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
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