From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 4 20: 7:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from whoweb.com (whoweb.com [208.146.132.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D3B1500A for ; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 20:07:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailist@whoweb.com) Received: (from mailist@localhost) by whoweb.com (8.8.8/8.8.6) id XAA09170 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 4 Sep 1999 23:04:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 23:04:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Incoming Mail List Message-Id: <199909050304.XAA09170@whoweb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ipfw/natd won't resolve hostnames Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a typical public/private network configuration using FreeBSD 3.0 and 2 NICS. One NIC connects to a cable modem and the other to my private network. Ipfw and natd are being used to provide the private network with access to the outside world via the cable modem. For testing purposes my only two ipfw rules are the natd divert and wide open accept from any to any rules. Natd in verbose mode shows that translations are occuring. My problem is that the private network can only reach the outside world if I specify IP addresses. Name resolution is not occuring when hostnames are specified. The resolv.conf file seems to be set up properly with name servers from the ISP. Name resolution occurs fine from the FreeBSD box. I've read various mail and articles describing the use of DNS for configurations such as this one, but I swear a few months ago this exact same configuration was working fine using only the ISP's nameservers as specified in the resolv.conf file. I did put an outside IP/hostname in the /etc/hosts file to see if that would help, but it didn't. What am I missing in my configuration that is preventing name resolution? All machines on the private network are WIN95 systems. The FreeBSD is acting as the gateway/firewall to the outside world. Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message