Hi all, I recently did an install of SuSE 7.3 pro on my main machine at home which also provides DNS and other services to a small home network. Internet access is thru a modem to my ISP. DNS (bind8) works fine for the internal network (192.168.2.0/24), both forward and reverse. The modem dials the ISP and connects, but I have no external DNS resolution. Theoretically, wvdial is supposed to set the default gateway to the modem and enter the dynamic DNS addresses into /etc/resolv.conf, but this does not appear to be happening. IOW, I can contact internet hosts by IP, but not by name. If I manually add the ISP DNS servers, lookups work, after a delay, as the internal nameservers appear to be checked first. My resolv.conf looks something like this (going from memory):
domain internal.lnx nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 201.217.120.83 search internal.lnx earthlink.net I also have forwarders set in /etc/named.conf, but they seem to be ignored. Also, do I need to set a default gateway on the server, since it only would appear to need one when the modem is connetced? This probably pretty basic stuff, but with Caldera, it seemed to work out of the box. Here at work, everything has static addresses and routes, so I've not really had to deal with the dynamic stuff much. The SuSE workings of this have got me stumped. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. TIA, John V. -- _/- John Voigt - K9GBO -----|- Registered Linux User #38558 --_/ _/- Reclamation Specialist --|- IN Dept of Natural Resources -_/ _/- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------|- (812) 665-2207 --------------_/ A shortcut is the longest distance between two points. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
