Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 22:06:10 -0500 From: Dan Thill <thill@umr.edu> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NAT'd machine can't resolve hostnames Message-ID: <3B8DADA2.6F1574A7@umr.edu> References: <3B8D9E69.C6D52866@umr.edu> <000f01c130fd$86914110$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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Thanks... I'll give it a whirl. Out of curiosity, how come none of the FAQs, or the Handbook mention it? Especially the Pedantic PPP Primer? I found endless info on setting up NAT, but nothing mentioned having to use named. I would figure that hostname resolution is a pretty important thing for those private machines :) > > 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.) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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