>On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:20:02 +0530, "____________ (Anand M R)" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I tried the above but now when i try to ping www.google.com > ping: unknown host www.google.com is what i get. >
>The problem lies in the DNS. > >When you set the proxy, http requests go through the proxy.. including >the url.. so if the proxy server machine has a DNS resolver IP >configured, the proxy will be able to resolve the IP and thus will be >able to get the data. > >But when you ping from your machine, it does not know how to reach the >pinged machine as you niether have it in /etc/hosts nor have you >configured a DNS resolver IP on your machine. > >So you have to configure a DNS resolver IP on your machine if you want >to be able to ping. > >-- >Laxminarayan G Kamath A >[EMAIL PROTECTED] Not only that, a machine behind a proxy probabely wont have access to an external DNS server. Unless there is a firewall which is allowing outgoing DNS queries on port 53. Best way is to configure a caching DNS server on the proxy itself. And use that as the DNS server LAN wide. It would also speed up things a bit. With warm regards Koustubha Kale ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
