On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 09:16:05PM -0700, Matt Ventura wrote: > On 8/8/2014 12:04 AM, Mike McClain wrote: > > I've been trying to get my hand rolled iptables firewall to > >masquerade traffic on the LAN to/from a Win2K box. I've gotten it to > >the point that I can ping from the boxes both ways, smbclient can move > >files both ways and the Win2K box can ping Google's IP address but DNS > >lookup fails even though I've used the same DNS server in the Win2K > >box as on my Debian box which access the Inet via dialup. IE says > >"Cannot find server or DNS error." > > I've read every HOWTO and the iptables man pages several times but > >am at a loss. > > Suggestions? > >Thanks, > >Mike > Can you post the exact output of the nslookup attempt from the win2k box? > > Thanks, > Matt Ventura
from a zsh prompt: Mike zsh:~> nslookup Default Server: resolver1.opendns.com Address: 208.67.222.222 > Didn't return. from a cmd.exe prompt: C:\WINNT\system32>nslookup DNS request timed out. timeout was 2 seconds. *** Can't find server name for address 208.67.222.222: Timed out Default Server: resolver2.opendns.com Address: 208.67.220.220 > Didn't return. from a bash prompt: Mike@Win2k:~> nslookup Default Server: resolver1.opendns.com Address: 208.67.222.222 > Didn't return. I'm quite sure I didn't enter 'resolver1' or 'resolver2' in anything in Windows so the DNS lookup must have worked to some degree. Mike -- "Imagination is looking at a dot in the sky and seeing it as another world is looking at the world and seeing it as as just a dot in the sky. is seeing a garden in the galaxy Is seeing a galaxy in the garden." - Jon Lomberg, space artist and journalist.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140809230007.GB11824@playground