On 2002-07-22 at 15:48 Dr. Richard W. Tibbs wrote:

> I booted up using a vanilla Dachstein RC2 floppy ( a little old, 
> I know) and everything on the firewall seems fine:

Assuming you mean Dachstein-PR2, is there a reason you are using
a pre-release version of Dachstein?  There were bugs in it that
were fixed in later releases[1].  IIRC, the way dnscache was setup
was changed too; /etc/dnscache.conf was eliminated in favor of the
/etc/dnscache/env directory.  It's been awhile, and I don't remember
the specifics, but think there were functional changes in the way
dnscache was setup too.

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:07:28 EDT Dr. Richard W. Tibbs wrote:

> >Which package are you using?  JNilo's doesn't contain any
> >/etc/dnscache.conf; rather, it looks like Erich's table (below).

Is it the stock Dachstein RC2 dnscache?

> >I remain convinced that something is not configured properly with
> >dnscache and/or it is *not* actually running . . .
> >
> This is my guess since nslookup from the win2k box times out.

Since this is dachstein (with netstat included), what does

   netstat -an | grep 53

say?  You should see (at least) a match for udp port 53 on
192.168.1.254 like this:

   udp        0      0 192.168.1.254:53        0.0.0.0:*

If not, what does

  ps | grep [d]nscache

say?  There should be a match for /usr/bin/dnscache , probably
running as the user "dnscache".  On my Dachstein-CD box, the
process is:

  1002 dnscache S    /usr/bin/dnscache

If dnscache is running and bound to 192.168.1.254:53, you might
try setting "nameserver 192.168.1.254" in /etc/resolv.conf on
the firewall and verify that name resolution on the firewall
still works.  (Try pinging an internet host by name.)  If it
doesn't, either dnscache is not setup correctly or maybe
something is blocking name requests to the root servers upstream,
although that seems unlikely.  I'd also recommend using a newer
version of Dachstein if you don't have a reason for using the
pre-release.

--Brad

[1] http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/cstein/files/diskimages/dachstein/changes.txt



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