The LAN hosts are configured manually with the DNS servers from Charter. Rather not do it this way, but I couldn't seem to get dnscache to serve up names. Hope to resolve this with a newer Dachstein or other leaf.
Over 3 million boxes unpacked.... only a few thousand more.... Brad Fritz wrote: > On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 09:39:48 EDT Dr. Richard W. Tibbs wrote: > > >>The Dachstein >>firewall has allowed access more-or-less continuously for several days >>now, since the last reboot. The "less" part has been that every so >>often it appears that DNS service "goes away", that is hosts become >>unreachable. I can still ping the firewall's gateway addr >>(192.168.1.254) during these periods. >>The lease periods on the cable side of the firewall are 4-hour leases, >>and the internal side of the firewall gives IP leases of 12 hours. >> > So possible explanations include > >>1) temporary lease "fumbling" every 4 hours. >>2) flaky, overloaded DNS servers at Charter (what a surprise...) >> > > If you're running DNS cache on the router and the LAN hosts are > using it, the answer to #2 is probably no. dnscache should start > with the root name servers and work their way down to resolve > names. Charter's DNS servers should be bypassed completely unless > you're resolving a name for which those DNS servers are > authoritative. The exception is if you explicitely configure it > to forward all queries or certain domains to Charter's DNS servers. > (I've been jumping around in leaf-user postings, so forgive me if > you indicated you are using such a setting in an earlier posting.) > > >>Let me pursue a more recent Dachstein (or maybe Bering?) and see if the >>problem persists. >> > > Good idea. > > --Brad > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
