-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Julian Visch wrote:
> I currently have 2 linux boxes, with one being intended as a firewall, and > the second as my main machine connect together via network cards, I can > telnet, ping each other, but I can't get them the second to use the first as > a DNS, I had assumed that all I needed to do was enter the name of the first > machine on the seconds setting up of dns, in addition I added the ip > addresses of my isps dns, all to no avail. What am I doing wrong? Install a DNS server on the firewall. I'd suggest BIND purely because it's the most well known. A resolver != A DNS server. What you've got is two machines with their resolvers configured, but they have to be configured to point to a real DNS server. Note that by adding a DNS server, you'll either bypass the ISP nameservers (so you could configure you firewall with 127.0.0.1 as your first DNS server), or with a bit of BIND configuration you can get it to simply forward all questions to your ISP servers. Just remember that BIND doesn't care what your /etc/resolv.conf contains, it will only use it's own configuration to work out what servers to query. Alterantively, configure both machines to have the ISP nameservers and allow at least udp/53 out, NATing as appropriate. - -- David Zanetti | (__) #include <geek/unix.h> | ( oo Mooooooo http://hairy.geek.nz/ | /(_O ./ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iD8DBQE/ZaKzT21+qRy4P+QRAq+sAKD5eTKtpfEfg2hWYeOekg7VPv3xOwCgoUgw uy5YZRqxFW/n9Y471d3KwPQ= =931x -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
