Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:43:10 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Dan Thill" <thill@umr.edu>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: NAT'd machine can't resolve hostnames Message-ID: <000f01c130fd$86914110$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <3B8D9E69.C6D52866@umr.edu>
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> I have two PCs, 192.168.0.1 and .2 both running FreeBSD 4.3. I'm using > user-land PPP to provide NAT to the Machine 2. I have PPP working perfectly > already. The two machines can see and talk to each other on the network via > hostnames and IP's fine. However, when Machine 1 is connected to my dialup ISP, > Machine 2 can only resolve sites by IP address. For some reason, Machine 1 > isn't resolving the hostname (or passing it on to my ISPs DNS servers to be > resolved). Machine 1's resolv.conf is updated for each connection (as it should > be), and if I copy the nameserver address to the resolv.conf of machine 2, > PRESTO! It can resolve names. > > My question is: is there anyway that Machine 2 can get the new nameserver > addresses from Machine 1, or have Machine 1 forward the resolutions on to the > ISP (or something like that... I'm not quite up to par on how all this works)? > Or do I have to use bind or routed? (I'd prefer to use neither). I would resort > to just editing Machine 2's resolv.conf, but I'm in a situation where I switch > between several ISPs on a daily basis. And I KNOW there is a way to so this, Yes. Run named on Machine 1, configured to forward all requests on to your ISP's DNS servers (see forwarders and forward-only configuration options in named.conf.) -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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