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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.)

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