Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:43:28 -0600 From: Drew Sanford <lauasanf@bellsouth.net> To: Greg MATTHEWS <G.Matthews@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dns lookup with ppp -nat Message-ID: <3A801BA0.2030105@bellsouth.net> References: <5592.981468523@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
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Its really not that bad. If your internal boxes can't run lookups (they should be able to) then you can simply run a forwarding server, your machine won't actually do any lookups, it will forward the lookups, but it will look like its doing the lookups to your internal machines. Greg MATTHEWS wrote: > how can i get my -nat'ed machines to use my isp dns? do i have to run a dns > server on the nat box? seems excessive as i only have 2 machines at home > (possibly 3 later). > > current setup: freebsd on i386 running ppp -nat and netbsd on sparc classic. > > the classic can access outside using ip numbers but wont perform dns lookups. > > cheers > > GREG > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Cotharyus lauasanf@bellsouth.net ICQ: 8690555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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