Eric Spakman wrote: > Hello Richard, > > If you (restart) the dnsmasq daemon, do you see the follwing lines in > /var/log/daemon.log? > > ...... > May 7 21:50:07 firewall dnsmasq[29611]: read /etc/hosts - 12 addresses > May 7 21:50:07 firewall dnsmasq[29611]: reading /etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf > ...... > > Also, how do you ping the firewall? By FQDN (so firewall.<domain part>) > If you want to ping the firewall by just the "short" name, you have to > enable the following option in dnsmasq.conf > # Set this (and domain: see below) if you want to have a domain > # automatically added to simple names in a hosts-file. > expand-hosts > > domain=private.network > > Eric > > > >> Hello, >> My Bering-uClibc firewall is mostly working in my test set-up, except >> that nodes on my LAN cannot access the firewall by name (default >> "firewall"). The LAN >> nodes can ping each other by name. >> >> I am using DHCP. >> In the dnsmasq configuration I have set >> resolv-file= /etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf local=/localdomain/ interface=eth1 >> domain=localdomain When I connect via cable "modem" the contents of this >> file look OK: search hsd1. tx.comcast.net. nameserver 68.87.85.98 >> > nameserver > >> 68.87.69.146 >> The contents of /etc/resolv.conf are >> nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 192.168.1.254 and my /etc/hosts file reads >> 127.0.0.1 localhost >> 192.168.1.254 firewall >> Access to internet sites is OK. The system is acting like it is ignoring >> the /etc/hosts file. I'm not a newbie, but neither am I an expert in >> networking. I'm suspicious of my setting for "local" and "domain", but not >> for any particular reason. >> >> Thanks for any help you can give. >> >> >> Regards, Rich Olson >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user >> Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ >> >> >> > > > > Thank you to Eric Spakman and KP Kirchdoerfer for you your help. I checked the daemon.log, which confirmed that the hosts file was indeed being read. I tried both of your suggestions and both worked for me. Best regards, Rich Olson
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