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Subject: Re: name resolving issues behind a firewall
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Is this happening always.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Kellers" <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com>
To: <questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 11:29 PM
Subject: name resolving issues behind a firewall


> 
> Strange name resolving issuses...
> 
> When I type:
> 
> heaven# nslookup wallnet.com
> Server:  cpe3.maestro.njit.edu
> Address:  128.235.198.4
> 
> Name:    wallnet.com
> Address:  208.225.162.122
> 
> 
> All is well, but when I type:
> 
> heaven# ping wallnet.com
> 
> I get:
> 
> ping: cannot resolve wallnet.com: Unknown host
> 
> The IP address of this machine is 192.168.0.64 and shares the private
> subnet with 2 other machines (one Win2k, one Linux) that can ping the
> outside world with no apparent problem.  The FreeBSD box can get to the
> internet via IP addresses, just fine; it just can't resolve names.
> 
> /etc/resolv.conf has valid Nameserver entries; I'm about out of ideas
> 
> 
> The OS is: 4.6-STABLE (as of Wednesday afternoon).
> 
> I'd appreciate any thoughts.
> 
> Tim Kellers
> CPE/NJIT
> 
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