On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 10:44, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
> I do not know enough about these topics to even ask the right questions.
>
> Problem:
>
> I cannot ping from my home network to the outside world. (Internal pings
> work fine)
>
> We use IPCop 1.4.1 and a Dlink ADSL modem
>
> On my Gentoo server my resolv.conf file looks like this...
> domain fisher
> nameserver 192.168.10.1
> nameserver 210.55.12.1
> nameserver 210.55.12.2
> search fisher
That looks correct to me, assuming that 192.168.10.1 is the number of the
IPCop machine? and that 210.55.12.[12] are the addresses of your ISP's name
server(s). You should not need to have these numbers in the /etc/resolv.conf
file of any server inside your network, only that of your IPCop.
Check out that the routing is set up correctly.
the command /sbin/route -n should respond with something like this:-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ /sbin/route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0
127.0.0.0 127.0.0.1 255.0.0.0 UG 0 00 lo
0.0.0.0 192.168.2.3 0.0.0.0 UG 0 00 eth0
Make sure that the /etc/conf.d/net.{lo,eth0} files are set up correctly.
btw, Could you mention how old the the Gentoo install is?
In particular what version of baselayout have you got?
They have made huge changes to the scripts which do the network setup
recently. I found that I could not get the static routing correctly either. I
solved the problem by setting up the the machine in internal network to use
the dhcp server in the IPCop box.
Seeing as the ISP has 5 Class C sub-nets they _should_ have their name servers
on different subnets. Cheapskates.
> Anyone have any ideas?
> Do I have to enter DNS addresses into IPCop?
It all depends on whether you are given a static address by Orcon or whether
they use dhcp to set your address and routing up.
> And I do apologise for not using Google for this but as I mentioned above -
> I don't know what I don't know.
You might care to read chapters 25 through to 27 in the RUTE book.
http://berty.dyndns.org/rute/node28.html
for a local instance.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
