> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 20:45:32 -0700 > From: Alan Silvester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [leaf-user] DNS problem > > Hi > > I've got my Bering firewall working, but there's a small > problem with DNS lookups. My ISP's mail and news servers are > "shawmail" and "shawnews". When I ping these from the > firewall, they are resolved to shawmail.cg.shawcable.net and > shawnews.ok.shawcable.net. However, if I ping shawmail / > shawnews from a LAN computer, I get an unknown host error > (pinging the fqdn works). How do I get this to work? I'm > running tinydns (private only) and dnscache on the firewall. > > Thanks, > --Alan
Hi Alan, I'm on the Shaw network as well. I don't have tinydns going on my box, so there may be (likely is) a more elegant way to fix this with tinydns. What I did was simply put the long 'shawmail.cg.shawcable.net' name in my email client and the equivalent news name in the newsreader. You were almost there with your ping tests! I suspect (and others can correct if I'm wrong) that dnscache adds whatever your 'network' is called to the shawmail or shawnews names before querying the dns server. So it's likely looking for 'shawmail.private.domain' or 'shawmail.localhost.localdomain' and failing as expected. I imagine that you could add these entries to tinydns and have it work the 'right' way. This is something I've been curious about but never needed to resolve. This, and the relationship with resolv.conf (specifically the 'search' entry). Brock ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Bringing you mounds of caffeinated joy. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
