Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 00:51:05 +0100 From: Paul Everlund <tdv94ped@cs.umu.se> To: Arthur Drake <arthurdrake@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble connecting to a natd machine from within the network Message-ID: <3C8A9FE9.F4EB3383@cs.umu.se> References: <F273UcpVE855jHTpqU00001ecfe@hotmail.com>
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Arthur Drake wrote: > > Thanks a lot, adding the address of the internal machine to /etc/resolv.conf > fixed it... but unfortunately it doesn't scale too well. Almost all of the > machines on the internal network use dhcp to get an ip address, so I guess I > have to either add 250 or so entries to the /etc/hosts file, or change the > behavior of FBSD. I guess it doesn't like ip addresses that don't reverse > dns properly? Hmmm... > > Anyway, thanks a lot for the help. Now that I have a workable solution and > a starting point, I can try to find a better solution to the problem. > > Thanks, > Art By now knowing this, that you have that many computers on the inside network and wants to use DHCP I would go for the suggestion from G D McKee, an own DHCP-server and DNS-server. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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